American scriptwriters increasingly incorporating Spanish in their dialogues
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 10:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Nieves Jiménez Carra, a researcher and lecturer at the Pablo de Olavide (UPO) University in Seville has studied how scripts swap from one language to another in American television series and cinema. One of her conclusions is that English-Spanish bilingualisms are increasingly common in scripts.