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How Catalans exiled in Mexico alternate between Catalan and Spanish to project their identities.

What is it about?

Immigrants develop identities that combine the culture of their homeland and the culture of their receiving communities. This shows in their bilingual conversations, when they combine languages. The alternation of two languages in bilingual conversation, however, is a regular process. It takes place under certain grammatical constraints and it serves specific communicative purposes.

Why is it important?

We show that the specific ways in which political immigrants hold conversations amongst themselves helps them build a new identity and a new community that singles them out from both their original and their receiving speech groups.

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