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This 15 page paper explores caló or the curious blend of Spanish, English, and slang that is more commonly referred to as “pachuquismo” or “pachuco”. Bibliography lists twenty sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Pachuco: Mexican American Slang Research Compiled for
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Mexican American presence in the United States has had a number of cultural impacts not only on the country itself but on the Mexican Americans. One of the more
vibrant reflections of those impacts is found in the dialects specific subsets of Mexican Americans speak. Of the more interesting of those dialects is "cal?" or the curious
blend of Spanish, English, and slang that is more commonly referred to as "pachuquismo" or "pachuco". There is a common misperception that pachuco died out after the Chicano movement
in the early 1980s. In reality pachuco survives to this day in some components of Chicano and Mexican culture. There are many
examples of observable linguistic differences among different social groups. The communicative patterns and strategies that make up these differences have been termed speech codes. They are not only
a reflection of culturally specific values but in fact both produce and reinforce culturally specific values. As Holmes has observed, the degree to which such cultural variances in linguistics
present themselves can vary according to the situation. A pachuco youth today, for example, might employ pachuco almost entirely in his or her communication with his peers but use
a more standard form of communication with their parents or their teachers. This results in what Holmes refers to as code mixing and code switching. The specifics of
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