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.

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)