Spanish in contact : policy, social and linguistic inquiries
This volume, covering a range of topics such as Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, policy issues, pragmatics and language contact, sociolinguistic variation and contact, and Bozal (Creole) Spanish, will serve the interests of linguists, educators, and policy makers alike. It provides cutting edge research on varieties of Spanish spoken by children, teenagers, and adults in places as diverse as Chicago, New York, New Mexico, and Houston; Valencia and Galicia; the Andean highlands; and the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The emphasis is on spoken Spanish, altho
Impact, studies in language and society, 22, v. 22
1 online resource (xx, 397 pages) : illustrations
9789027292469, 9789027218612, 9027292469, 9027218617
237770607
Spanish in Contact; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Heritage Spanish in the Unites States; Subjects in early dual language development; Interpreting mood distinctions in Spanish as a heritage language; Anglicismos en el léxico disponible de los adolescentes hispanos de Chicago; Education and policy issues; Teaching Spanish in the U.S.; The politics of English and Spanish aquí y allá; Language attitudes and the lexical de-Castilianization of Valencian; Are Galicians bound to diglossia?; Pragmatics and contact