They variously address language maintenance, syntactic variation, lexicography, language use and language teaching, and include studies on socioeconomic, political, and cultural aspects of language in the Spanish-speaking communities in the ...
Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Contact and Diversity
This collection of original papers presents current research on linguistic aspects of the Spanish used in the United States.
In addition to this snapshot, this volume stimulates new areas of inquiry and motivates new ways of analyzing the social, linguistic, and educational aspects of what it means to speak Spanish in the United States.
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When this book was first published in 1982, there were approximately eleven million Spanish-speaking people in the United States.