Spanish in the USA. Language Shift to English or Language Maintenance?

Spanish in the USA. Language Shift to English or Language Maintenance?
Author: Enneriema Aunerz
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2018-11-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3668837368

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Erfurt (Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät), course: Sociolinguistics, language: English, abstract: The seminar Sociolinguistics gave me first insights into language use. Thereby, the isolation of languages is unrealistic, especially in times of globalization. Even in the United States is not only English spoken. Beside other languages, you can hear Spanish in a lot of American cities. Researches into this will be the matter of this term paper.

Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States

Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States
Author: Sara M. Beaudrie
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1589019393

There is growing interest in heritage language learners—individuals who have a personal or familial connection to a nonmajority language. Spanish learners represent the largest segment of this population in the United States. In this comprehensive volume, experts offer an interdisciplinary overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. They also address the central role of education within the field. Contributors offer a wealth of resources for teachers while proposing future directions for scholarship.

The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics
Author: Robert Bayley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 913
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190233745

This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.

An American Language

An American Language
Author: Rosina Lozano
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520969588

"This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge Ramos An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.

Spanish in the United States

Spanish in the United States
Author: Ana Roca
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2011-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110804972

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.

Language Contact and Change

Language Contact and Change
Author: Carmen Silva-Corvalán
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198236443

Languages in contact are characterized by constant and rapid change; thus, they provide a testing ground for hypotheses about processes of linguistic change. In this study, Silva-Corval�n looks at an inter-generational sample of Spanish-English bilinguals in Los Angeles County. Bringing together analytical techniques employed in sociolinguistics, functional syntax, and discourse analysis, she uncovers the linguistic, cognitive, and social processes underlying language maintenance, as well as changes characteristic of language shift and loss.

Bilingual Youth

Bilingual Youth
Author: Kim Potowski
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2011-03-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027287287

The present volume represents a variety of portraits of what happens when families attempt to raise children in Spanish while living in English-speaking societies. Aided by the foregrounding chapter by Suzanne Romaine about language and identity and the afterword by Carol Klee that ties together many issues brought up throughout the collection, the reader gains a more complete understanding of the variables that contribute to Spanish bilingualism in English-speaking societies, and by extension a more complete understanding of the dynamic nature of bilingualism in general. This volume, the first of its kind, brings together an impressive array of sociolinguistic environments while keeping the two languages constant. We hope that it marks the beginning of comparative analyses of bilingualism, acquisition outcomes, and identity construction across environments that share the same languages, but where important disparities exist in the sociolinguistic landscapes.

Spanish in Contact

Spanish in Contact
Author: Kim Potowski
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2007-07-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027292469

This volume, covering a range of topics such as Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, policy issues, pragmatics and language contact, sociolinguistic variation and contact, and Bozal (Creole) Spanish, will serve the interests of linguists, educators, and policy makers alike. It provides cutting edge research on varieties of Spanish spoken by children, teenagers, and adults in places as diverse as Chicago, New York, New Mexico, and Houston; Valencia and Galicia; the Andean highlands; and the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The emphasis is on spoken Spanish, although researchers also investigate code-switching in the lyrics of bachata songs and the presence of creole in Cuban and Brazilian literature. This collection will be of interest wherever Spanish is spoken.

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139500937

The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.

Developing Minority Language Resources

Developing Minority Language Resources
Author: Guadalupe Valdés
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853598976

This book documents ongoing language shift to English among Latino professionals in California. It then describes current instructional practices used in the teaching of Spanish as an academic subject at the high school and university levels to 'heritage' language students who, although educated entirely in English, acquired Spanish at home as a first language. It specifically examines the potential contribution of these instructional practices to the maintenance of Spanish.