Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Contact and DiversityAna Roca, John M. Lipski This collection of original papers presents current research on linguistic aspects of the Spanish used in the United States. The authors examine such topics as language maintenance and language shift, language choice, the bilingual's discourse patterns, varieties of Spanish used in the United States, and oral proficiency testing of bilingual speakers.In view of the fact that Hispanics constitute the largest linguistic minority in the United States, the pioneering work in the area of sociolinguistic issues in the U.S. Spanish presented here is of great importance. |
Contents
Acknowledgements V | 1 |
Frances R Apacicio | 5 |
Ricardo Otheguy | 21 |
Margarita Hidalgo | 47 |
Manuel J Gutiérrez and Carmen SilvaCorvalán | 75 |
Barbara Zurer Pearson and Arlene McGee | 91 |
Felice Anne Coles | 121 |
Ricardo Otheguy and Ofelia Garcia | 135 |
Lipski | 155 |
David Barnwell | 199 |
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Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Contact and Diversity Ana Roca,John M. Lipski Limited preview - 2020 |
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ACTFL analysis año bilingual calque capita gross national Chicano Chula Vista civil strife clitics code-switching conceptual contact neologism context conversation correlation Cuban cultural diglossia edificio Elías-Olivares English escalier de feu escuela español ethnic example express Fishman García grammatical gross national product Haugen Hispanic inter-polity interview Isleño Isleño dialect Keenan LANGUAGE ATTITUDES language choice language contact language death language maintenance language shift Latin America linguistic heterogeneity Lipski llamar para atrás loan translation loanwords Mexican Mexican-American Mexico Miami Michoacán modeling Mouton native speakers Newbury House North American optimal subset oral Otheguy parents percentages phrases population postverbal predictors proficiency pronouns Puerto referent residence semantic extensions semi-speakers Silva-Corvalán situation social sociolinguistic Spanish language Spanish speakers Spanish-speaking speak speakers of Spanish structures TB speakers Text topic U. S. Spanish United University unplanned discourse usage variables verb vestigial Weinreich words York