Celso Alvarez Cáccamo

Universidade da Corunha · Departamento de Letras - Faculdade de Filologia

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 3-16

In this paper, a model is outlined for the interactional analysis of code-switching (CS) as a communicative phenomenon separate from the alternation of speech varieties (AL, alternancia linguística) which is a purely structural phenomenon. Communicative codes are viewed as general mechanisms to manifest intentions at several levels of discourse org...

Through the analysis of political rallies and parliamentary speech in Galiza, it is shown how conversationalized forms of political discourse enter into ideological manipulation and hegemony-building by professional politicians. The overall resulting phenomenon, cross-discourse , draws from habitual, daily and traditional forms of speech. Political...

This work discusses the powers of code choices in reported speech (RS) to build conversational alliances and interactional control, and to index broader sociolinguistic aspects. Data come from today's highly ideologized context of language institutionalization in bilingual Galiza (Spain). The paper focuses on code displacement in RS, or the non-iso...

This paper addresses the construction of institutional authority and interactional hegemony in public political discourse. The arguments are based on the detailed analysis of one case from a town council meeting in the city of Vigo, in Galiza (Spain). It is argued that authority-building is achieved through a basic conversational mechanism: the tac...

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"This study documents the current process of institutionalization of the Galician language, traditionally subordinated to Spanish within the bilingual community of Galiza, Spain. Focusing on the detailed analysis of public urban discourse, the study examines the articulations between linguistic choices, power relationships, and underlying linguisti...