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Domínguez-Rosado Brenda |
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The unlinking of language and Puerto Rican identity : new trends in sight / / by Brenda Domínguez-Rosado |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (116 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropological linguistics - Puerto Rico |
Puerto Ricans - Language |
Puerto Ricans - United States - Language |
Puerto Rico |
United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Language and identity have an undeniable link, but what happens when a second language is imposed on a populace? Can a link be broken or transformed? Are the attitudes towards the imposed language influential? Can these attitudes change over time? The mixed-methods results provided by this book are ground-breaking because they document how historical and traditional attitudes are changing towards both American English (AE) and Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS) on an island where the population has been subjected to both Spanish and US colonization. There are presently almost four million people livin |
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