Celso Álvarez Cáccamo

Celso Álvarez Cáccamo, born in Vigo, Galicia, Spain in 1958, is an author and sociolinguist.

Álvarez Cáccamo earned a doctorate from the University of California, 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 State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently a professor of linguistics at University of A Coruña.

Álvarez Cáccamo is the author of multiple academic articles in the field of sociolinguistics. 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 code-switching: 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)