Spanish of the U.S. Southwest : a language in transition / / Susana V. Rivera-Mills, Daniel J. Villa (eds.) [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910159541303321
• Autore: Rivera-Mills Susana Victoria
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madrid, : Iberoamericana; Norwalk, CT, : Iberoamericana Vervuert Pub. Corp., 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 p. )
• Collana: Lingüística iberoamericana ; ; vol. 38
• Classificazione: 18.31
• Altri autori (Persone): Rivera-MillsSusana Victoria; VillaDaniel J
• Disciplina: 467/.979
• Soggetti: Spanish language - Southwestern States; Spanish language - Social aspects - Southwestern States; Hispanic Americans - Southwestern States - Languages; Languages in contact - Southwestern States; Sociolinguistics - Southwestern States; Philology & Linguistics; Languages & Literatures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: A Language in Tran- sition -- SECTION I. HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF SOUTHWEST SPANISH -- Introduction. Documenting the Past, Envisioning the Future: The His- torical Sociolinguistics of Spanish in the U.S. Southwest -- Varieties of Spanish in Post-Annexation California (1848-1900) -- From Voice to Print: Language and Social Change in New México, 1880- 1912 -- A Historical Perspective on Contemporary New México Spanish Ar- chaisms -- SECTION II. LOSS AND MAINTENANCE OF SOUTHWEST SPANISH -- Introduction. Whither Southwest Spanish? Issues in the Assessment of Maintenance or Loss -- Gender and Spanish-Language Maintenance among U.S.-Born Hispanic Children in the Southwest: Evidence from the 2001-2006 American Com- munity Surveys -- Spanish-as-Threat Ideology and the Sociocultural Context of Spanish in South Texas -- The State(s) of Spanish in the Southwest: A Comparative Study of Lan- guage ; Maintenance and Socioeconomic Variables -- Acculturation and Communicative Need in the Process of Language Shift: The Case of an Arizona Community -- SECTION III. DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES OF SOUTHWEST SPANISH -- Introduction. Description and Beyond: The Southwest at the Center -- Variable yo Expression in New México: English Influence? -- Passive Expressions as Isogloss between New Mexican and Californian Spanish Dialect Areas -- An Analysis of the Motivations for Borrowing in the Spanish of New México -- Y nos vamos patrás: Back to an Analysis of a Supposed 'Calque' -- SECTION IV. LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AND IDENTITY ISSUES -- Introduction. Ethnicity and Language: Identity Issues in the U.S. South west -- 'I'm Not Mexican... pero soy mexicano': Linguistic Context of Labeling among Mexican Americans in Texas -- Todavía decimos 'nosotros [los] mexicanos''. Construction of Identity La- bels among Nuevo Mexicanos.; Attitudes toward Spanish Language Variation among Latinas Living in Western Colorado -- SECTION V. LANGUAGE POLITICS AND ISSUES IN SPANISH HERITAGE SPEAKER PEDAGOGY -- Introduction. The Sociopolitics of Heritage Language Education -- Research, Responsibility and Repression: Anti-Bilingualism in Arizona -- Different Words for Different Contexts: Intra-Speaker Variation in Span ish as a Heritage Language -- Reducing Spanish on the Margins of Empire: A Historical Perspective on Ideologies and Ecologies of Language Education in Sonoma County, California -- AUTHORS.