Celso Álvarez Cáccamo, born in

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, Galicia,

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in 1958, is an author and

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. Álvarez Cáccamo earned a doctorate from the

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, Berkeley with his dissertation, ''The Institutionalization of Galician: Linguistic Practices, Power, and Ideology in Public Discourse''. He also earned a degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the

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. He is currently a professor of linguistics at

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. Álvarez Cáccamo is the author of multiple academic articles in the field of

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. He is also a poet and a contributor to the journal ''Vieiros''.

Selected works

Poetry

* ''Os distantes'' (1995, Espiral Maior). * ''Escolma de familia. Cen anos de poesía'' (2000, Xerais). (collective volume) * ''Poemas ao pai'' (2008, Espiral Maior). (collective volume) * ''Os passos da procura'' (2018, Através).

Linguistics

* "Rethinking conversational

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: codes, speech varieties, and contextualization" (1990). ''Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society'' * "Building alliances in political discourse: language, institutional authority, and resistance" (1996). ''Folia Linguistica'' * "From 'switching code' to 'code switching': towards a reconceptualisation of communicative codes" (1998). in Peter Auer (ed.) ''Code-Switching in Conversation. Language, interaction and identity'' * "Para um modelo do 'code-switching' ea alternância de variedades como fenómenos distintos: dados do discurso galego-português/espanhol na Galiza" (2000). ''Estudios de sociolingüística'' (in Galician)

References

* ''Dicionario biográfico de Galicia'', Ir Indo Edicións, 2010–2011, Vigo. (in Galician)

External links

Web page of Celso Álvarez Cáccamo
{{Authority control 1958 births Galician poets Linguists of Galician Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish linguists Alvarez Caccamo, Celso