Spagnolo, inglese e spanglish a new york. Analisi sociolinguistica della comunita portoricana

L'elaborato intende proporre un'analisi sociolinguistica della comunità portoricana di New York. Il lavoro di ricerca, condotto proprio nella città di New York, ha lo scopo di fornire una prospettiva, il più ampia possibile, sull'uso dell'inglese, dello spagnolo e delle pratiche linguistiche legate allo Spanglish da parte di questa specifica comunità ispanofona. Lo studio si è concentrato prevalentemente sull'analisi del comportamento linguistico di due generazioni di portoricani, i cui usi linguistici variano in relazione a specifici parametri riscontrati all'interno dell'organizzazione sociale.

La traduzione dei racconti di Pat Mora: muoversi tra due lingue e due culture

This dissertation deals with the translations of seven books for children written by the Chicano author Pat Mora. I started to be interested in the Chicano world, a world suspended between Mexico and the United States, after reading a book by Sandra Cisneros. I decided to deepen my curiosity and for this reason, I discovered a hybrid reality full of history, culture and traditions. In this context, the language used is characterized by a continuous code switching between Spanish and English and I thought it was an interesting phenomenon from the literary and translation point of view. During my research in the Chicano culture, I ran across Pat Mora. Her books for children fascinated me because of their actual themes (the cultural diversity and the defense of identity) and their beautiful illustrations. For this reason, I chose to translate seven of her books because I believe they could be an enrichment for children literature in Italy. The work consists of five chapters. The first one deals with the identity of Chicano people, their history, their literature and their language. In the second chapter, I outline Pat Mora’s profile. I talk about her biography and I analyze her most famous works. In the third chapter, I introduce the seven books for children to be translated and I point out their plots and main themes. In the fourth chapter, I present the translation of the books. The fifth chapter is the translation comment. I deal with the linguistic analysis of the source texts and the analysis of the target texts focusing on the choices made during the translation process.