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## Abstract This paper analyzes Junot Díaz’s most recent works__The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao__(2007.__The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao__. New York: Riverhead) and__This is How You Lose Her__(2012.__This is how you lose her__. New York: Riverhead) by using Muysken’s (2000.__Bilingual speech. A typology of code-mixing__. Cambridge: CUP) typology of code-switching to illustrate the types of language mixing devices present in these two texts. I point out that Díaz’s innovative use of radical bilingualism is not due to the quantity of sentences including Spanish, rather to the quality of mixing and switching in his works. Further, I elaborate on Casielles-Suárez, Eugenia. (2013. Radical code-switching in the Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao.__Bulletin of Hispanic Studies__90. 475–487) study using Torres’ (2007. In the contact zone: Code-switching strategies by Latino/a writers.__MELUS__32(1). 75–96) categorization of code-switching strategies utilized by U.S. Hispanic authors. I find that instead of Díaz’s texts__gratifying the bilingual reader__(Torres. 2007. In the contact zone: Code-switching strategies by Latino/a writers.__MELUS__32(1). 75–96) or creating__radical hybri
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- Author
- Roshawnda A. Derrick
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)