Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles

Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles
ISBN-10
0198242875
ISBN-13
9780198242871
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Pages
255
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Author
Carmen Silva-Corvalán

Description

Languages in a situation of contact, whether they are receding or being maintained by their speakers, are characterized by constant and rapid change. Thus they provide a testing ground for hypotheses about processes of linguistic change. In this original and significant study of an intergenerational sample of Spanish-English bilinguals in Los Angeles County, Carmen Silva-Corvalan explores in depth the linguistic, cognitive, and social processes underlying language maintenance, as well as changes characteristic of language shift and loss, bringing together analytical techniques employed in sociolinguistics, functional syntax, and discourse analysis.

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