Here are sites and blogs that were very important for the construction of this blog:
http://www.esi2.us.es/~jon/spanglist.html#P
This is a kind of dictionary of Spanglish. It is a preliminary list of Computer Spanglish/Spanish terms.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1438900
This is an article of NPR about the publication of the book “Spanglish: the making of a new American language” and shows how Spanglish has an increasingly importance in United States.
http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/interns/ie03/spanglish.html
This short article discusses the popularization and importance of Spanglish in United States nowadays and also if this language should be though at school or not. The debate was raised because of the publication of the first Spanglish diccionary (“Spanglish: the making of a new American language”, by Ilan Stavans).
http://prizedwriting.ucdavis.edu/past/1995-1996/201cspanglish201d-the-language-of-chicanos
In this page, the Mexican Rosa María Jiménez writes about environments where English and Spanglish are spoken and also explains important linguistic concepts (code-switching and bilinguism) and how they contributed for the formation of a Mexican identity in the United States. It is a very interesting text, since the author is bilingual and writes from her own experiences.
http://www.latinopoetrycommunity.org/giannina-braschi-biography.php
This page presents the biography of Giannina Braschi, the first author who published a book in Spanglish - Yo-Yo Boing!, in 1998.
http://www.elcastellano.org/elpais.html
This article, originally published in the Spanish newspaper El País, shows the importance of Spanglish in the everyday life of the Hispanic Communities of United States. It gives many examples and shows different points of view about the use of Spanglish.
http://www.elcastellano.org/clarin.html
In this article, written in Spanish and originally published at Clarín and New York Times, Professor Roberto Gonzáles-Echeverría (University of Yale) points out that Spanglish is a devaluation of Spanish and gives many justifications for his statement.
http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cjpountain/spanglishprincesred.pdf
A very clear pdf written by Professor Chris Pountain (University of London), in which he explains the process of development of Spanglish and gives many examples of word-formation in this language.
http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cjpountain/spanglish.pdf
Another work by Professor Chris Pountain (University of London), in which he explains some linguistic concepts related to the formation and use of Spanglish, like language contact, borrowing, and code-switching. He also gives five examples of Spanglish (in speech, music and literature).
http://www3.amherst.edu/~spanglish/garrido.htm
This is a conference presented in 2004 by Joaquín Garrido at Amherst College (Massachusetts), in which he relates the concepts of language, identity and adaptation.
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/6362Olague2.htm
This page explains the formation, importance and spread of Spanglish in United States, mentioning concepts such as language purism, language varieties and code-switching.
http://www.america.gov/st/texttrans-english/2007/August/20070823173606xjsnommiS0.6182672.html
An article by Ilan Stavans, in which he explains the development of Spanglish in United States, relating it to sociolinguistic concepts and giving examples, not only of Spanglish, but also of other boareder/hybrid languages around the world.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7873962/do_you_speak_spanglish_pg3.html?cat=4
A page that explains how Spanglish works and also gives some examples of Spanglish in speech
http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/spanglish/book/
This page provides us important information about what is Spanglish, how and where it is spoken. This is a very interesting interview with Ilan Stavans the author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language.
http://www.ampersandcom.com/GeorgeLeposky/spanglish.htm
On this page you may found a discussion about Spanglish as a language. The most important point of this discussion is that the author, Roberto González Echevarría, believes that Spanglish indicates a marginalization of the American Hispanic culture.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967889-2,00.html
This article goes about the Spanglish itself and the different types of Spanglish that are spoken in the different areas of the United States. Janice Castro, also emphasizes the importance of the American Hispanic costumes in the U.S and how the Spanglish reflects this mixture of cultures. As the author says “the speakers know Spanish, but their hybrid language reflects the American culture in which they live.”
http://spanish.about.com/cs/historyofspanish/a/spanglish.htm
This page provides a brief description about Spanglish and “the growing use of English in the everyday speech and writing of Spanish-speaking people”. The interesting on this page is the examples that are given of the most used Spanglish words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanglish
Wikipedia defines what is Spanglish, maps where it is spoken and provides some very good example of Spanglish on tv shows, romances and advertisings.
