Spanish in the USA (eBook, ePUB)

Linguistic, translational and cultural aspects
Redaktion: Valdeón, Roberto

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Delving into the uneasy relationship between English and Spanish in the United States of America, this book utilises an interdisciplinary standpoint to offer new insights into the problems of this cultural and linguistic contact, and suggest new areas of research. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315471839
• Artikelnr.: 56840507

Autorenporträt

Roberto A. Valdeón is affiliated with the University of Oviedo, Spain. He is a research fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and an honorary professor at Jinan University, China. He is the Editor-in-chief of Perspectives and the General Editor of Benjamins Translation Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Languages in contact, cultures in conflict: English and
Spanish in the USA 1. El engañol y el cuco: metaphors in the nexus between
language and status in Puerto Rico 2. Institutional representations of
'Spanish' and 'Spanglish': managing competing discourses in heritage
language instruction 3. Colonial museums in the US (un)translated 4. Double
intercultural dialogue in the Hispanic press in the United States: the case
of New York newspapers 5. The universality of syntactic constraints of
Spanish-English codeswitching in the USA 6. The role of translators and
interpreters in hybrid English-Spanish contexts in the USA 7. Intersecting
communities, interwoven identities: questioning boundaries, testing
bridges, and forging a queer latinidad in the US Southwest