The article is in Spanish, but there is a version of the abstract in English:
This paper approaches a sample of 14 English popular romance fiction novels using a sociolinguistic perspective. The texts analyzed here, which belong to a wider corpus, are totally or partially set in the Canaries. They involve interaction between Spanish- and English-speaking heroes and heroines, therefore, their discourse is sprinkled with words and expressions taken from the Spanish variety spoken in the islands. Our main aim here is to show the authors’ sociolinguistic awareness, by identifying those mechanisms which contribute to the recreation of the bilingual context and to the linguistic representation of the characters. The data obtained after a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the texts seem to confirm that the autors’ sociolinguistic awareness is revealed mainly by their resorting to a number of strategies for representation, including metadiscourse and codeswitching. The hispanicisms which occur in these texts are also helpful to begin the compilation of a glossary, which makes us ponder upon the role this type of texts might play as possible channels for the international spread of Spanish vocabulary among their wide readership.
The article is in Spanish, but there is a version of the abstract in English: