Spanish in the U.S. Setting
Author | : Lucía Elías-Olivares |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1983 |
ISBN-10 | : UCSC:32106005571234 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Spanish in the U.S. Setting written by Lucía Elías-Olivares and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)