Daniel J. Villa, Jens H. Clegg

U.S. Mexican Spanish West of the Mississippi (eBook, ePUB)

Social Context and Linguistic Features

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

U.S. Mexican Spanish West of the Mississippi proposes a macro dialect of the most widely spoken Spanish variety in the western U.S. from a number of social and linguistic angles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351697095
• Artikelnr.: 68161757

Autorenporträt

Daniel J. Villa is Professor Emeritus of Spanish Linguistics at New Mexico State University, USA. His primary research interests are in Spanish of the Southwest, US Spanish, language maintenance and loss, and Spanish for native and heritage speakers.

Jens H. Clegg is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA. His research interests include US Spanish, language contact, bilingualism, and sociolinguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Social contexts

1. Introduction

2. U.S. Mexican Spanish West of the Mississippi

3. A (very) brief history of migration: The spread of Spanish speakers

4. Identity: What is in a name?

5. U.S. Mexican Spanish speakers: Race, power and language

6. Language policy and planning

7. Bilingual dynamics: Spanish and English in contact in the West

Part II. Linguistic perspectives

8. Thinking about how we think: The relationship between theory and practice

9. The lexicon: Part I

10. The lexicon: Part II

11. Phonology

12. Language structure

13. Concluding remarks