English Sociolinguistics

  • L & Politics

    Language and politics:
    metaphor, simile, personification, euphemism, dyeuphemism, three-part statement, parallelism, antithesis, pronouns
  • Word formation

    Derivational morphology
    Conversion
    Compounding
    Creation de novo
    Blending
    Clipping
  • Word formation

    Back-formation
    Eponyms
    Reduplication
  • Spanglish

    code-switching, contact-language phenomenon, Generation Spanglish.
  • Spanglish

    mixed identity , Hispanic/Latino identity, hybrid code, encounter-class, transculturation (acculturation, deculturation, neoculturation).