Spanish Speakers in the USA

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84769-878-0
Verlag: Channel View Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 249 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 492 g

Reihe: MM Textbooks

This record refers to the first edition. Please note that a new fully revised and updated second edition was published in 2020. For more information, search for 'Speaking Spanish in the US: The Sociopolitics of Language' by Janet M. Fuller and Jennifer Leeman.

Spanish Speakers in the USA explores the relationship between language and culture both as specific to Latin@s and as a generalizable example of linguistic and cultural diversity. The concept of identity is explored, with special attention to culturally embedded ideas about 'race' and ethnicity, and how language contributes to identity construction. Also addressed are attitudes and beliefs about the Spanish language, and the people who speak it, as they are revealed in online communication, public discourse, films and television. Linguistic consequences of language contact are discussed, showing how so-called 'Spanglish' is both socially significant and linguistically mundane. The final chapter illuminates how the education of Spanish speakers in the USA school system is linked to issues surrounding Latin@ identities and ideologies about Spanish.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuller, Janet M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: IDEOLOGIES AND IDENTITIES

Chapter One: Language Ideologies and Language Policies

Chapter Two: Language and Identity

Chapter Three: “Race”, Ethnicity and the Language of Latinos in the US

Chapter Four: Media Representations of Spanish and Spanish Speakers in US English Language TV and Film: Production and Reproduction of Ideologies

Part II: LANGUAGE PRACTICES

Chapter Five: Spanish Language Maintenance and Shift in the US

Chapter Six: Linguistic Consequences of Spanish-English Bilingualism in the US: Spanglish and Chican@ English

Chapter Seven: Latin@ Education in the US

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fuller, Janet M.
Janet M. Fuller es catedrática de Lenguaje y Sociedad en el Departamento de Lenguas y Culturas Europeas, de la Universidad de Groningen (Países Bajos). Sus intereses de investigación incluyen el multilingüismo, las ideologías lingüísticas y las identidades sociales.

Janet M. Fuller is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She has done research on many facets of multilingualism, including the social identities and language use of children in Spanish-English bilingual classrooms in the USA.