Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistic Aspects

Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistic Aspects
ISBN-10
0521286891
ISBN-13
9780521286893
Series
Spanish in the United States
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
452
Language
English
Published
1982-08-31
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Lucía Elías-Olivares, Jon Amastae

Description

When this book was first published in 1982, there were approximately eleven million Spanish-speaking people in the United States. This volume constitutes a comprehensive and accessible set of readings on the Spanish spoken in the United States. The authors examine various aspects of language structure and language use by the American Chicano, Puerto Rican and Cuban populations. Chapters include descriptions of language variation, reports of language contact and language change and analyses of the ethnography of language use in bilingual communities with particular emphasis on code-switching. Several chapters explore the educational implications of language structure and language use. This collection will be of interest to a wide range of linguists, anthropologists and sociologists. Bilingual educators and language planners in bilingual communities will find it of particular value and students of sociolinguistics will discover in it the main trends of sociolinguistic analysis usefully exemplified.

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