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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824793803321

Titolo

Spanish in contact : policy, social and linguistic inquiries / / edited by Kim Potowski ; Richard Cameron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007

ISBN

1-282-15458-3

9786612154584

90-272-9246-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 397 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Impact, studies in language and society, , 1385-7908 ; ; v. 22

Altri autori (Persone)

PotowskiKim

CameronRichard <1953->

Disciplina

460

Soggetti

Spanish language - Social aspects

Spanish language - Political aspects

Languages in contact

Bilingualism

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Subjects in early dual language development : a case study of a Spanish-English bilingual child / Carmen Silva-Corvalán and Noelia Sánchez-Walker -- Interpreting mood distinctions in Spanish as a heritage language / Silvina A. Montrul -- Anglicismos en el léxico disponible de los adolescentes hispanos de Chicago / Francisco Moreno-Fernández -- Teaching Spanish in the U.S. : beyond the one-size-fits-all paradigm / Maria M. Carreira -- The politics of English and Spanish aquí y allá / Lourdes Torres -- Language attitudes and the lexical de-Castilianization of Valencian : implications for language planning / Manuel Triano-López -- Are Galicians bound to diglossia? : an analysis of the nature, uses and values of standard Galician / Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez.

Sommario/riassunto

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, although researchers also investigate code-switching in the lyrics of bachata songs and the presence of creole in Cuban and Brazilian literature. This collection will be of interest wherever Spanish is spoken.