The unlinking of language and Puerto Rican identity : new trends in sight / / by Brenda Domínguez-Rosado

• Autore: Domínguez-Rosado Brenda
• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (116 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44089
• Soggetto topico: Anthropological linguistics - Puerto Rico; Puerto Ricans - Language; Puerto Ricans - United States - Language
• Soggetto geografico: Puerto Rico; United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The unlinking of language and Puerto Rican identity
• ISBN: 1-4438-8209-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824113403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II