id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4006 Ilan Stavans - Wikipedia .html text/html 3033 371 63 Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961) is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short story author, publisher, TV personality. Stavans is a sociolinguist and who writes on Spanglish,[5] a hybrid form of communication that merges Spanish and English.[6][7] He edited a dictionary of Spanglish words called Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language (2003), which provides historical analysis of the development of this linguistic form and denotes Spanglish use in literary works by major Latino authors Piri Thomas, Giannina Braschi, Sandra Cisneros, and Junot Díaz.[8] Stavans says Spanglish first developed after 1848, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed after the Mexican–American War ended and a large portion of Mexican land was ceded to the United States. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4006.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4006.txt