Spanish in the U.S. Setting: Beyond the Southwest

The role and use of Spanish in the geographic areas outside of the U.S. Southwest are examined in a collection of 16 conference papers. The papers address the general topics of language contact, linguistic variation, sociolinguistic factors, and language maintenance policy, and planning. Among the s...

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Main Author Elias-Olivares, Lucia, Ed
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Spanish
Published National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education 1983
Subjects
Code Switching (Language)
Hispanic Americans
Interference (Language)
Language Maintenance
Language Planning
Language Usage
Language Variation
Sociolinguistics
Spanish
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Summary:The role and use of Spanish in the geographic areas outside of the U.S. Southwest are examined in a collection of 16 conference papers. The papers address the general topics of language contact, linguistic variation, sociolinguistic factors, and language maintenance policy, and planning. Among the specific issues discussed are: a dialectology of U.S. Spanish, subject-object reversals among New York Hispanics, interference and code switching in contemporary New York Judeo-Spanish, code shifting patterns in Chicano Spanish, Spanish-English bilingual children as peer teachers, bilingual competence, Spanish language resources in the United States, Mexican American language communities in Minnesota cities, and the Hispanic speech community of Washington, D.C. (RW)
ISBN:9780897630733
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