Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: a language in transition

Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: a language in transition

An edited volume divided into five sections: historical linguistics, loss and maintenance, descriptive linguistics, work on language attitudes and identities, and finally language politics and pedagogical issues.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Spanish of the U.S. Southwest a language in transition. Susana Rivera- Mills
  • Section I. Historical aspects of southwest spanish
    • Introduction. Documenting the past, envisioning the future. Glenn Martinez
    • Varieties of spanish in post-annexation California (1848-1900). María Irene Moyna
    • From voice to print: language and social change in New Mexico, 1880 - 1912. Arturo Fernández-Gibert
    • A historical perspective on contemporary New Mexico spanish archaisms. Juan Antonio Trujillo
  • Section II. Loss and maintenance of southwest spanish
    • Introduction. Whiter southwest spansih? Issues in the assessment of maintenance or loss. Garland D. Bills
    • Gender and spanish-language maintenance among U.S. - born hispanic children in the southwest. Marie T. Mora
    • Spanish-as-threat ideology and the sociocultural context of spanish in South Texas. Tonya E. Wolford/Phillip M. Carter
    • The state (s) of spanish in the southwest: a comparative study of language maintenance and socioeconomic variables. Devin L. Jenkins
    • Acculturation and communicative need in the process of language shift: the case of an Arizona community. Susana V. Rivera - Mills
  • Section III. Descriptive studies of Southwest spanish
    • Introduction. Description and beyond: the southwest at the center. John M. Lipski
    • Variable YO expression in New Mexico: English influence?. Rena Torres C/Catherine E. Travis
    • Passive expressions as isogloss between new mexican and californian spanish dialect areas. Patricia Gubitosi
    • An analysis of the motivations for borrowing in the spanish of the New Mexico. Jens H. Clegg
    • Y nos vamos patrás: back to an analysis of a supposed "calque". Daniel J. Villa
  • Section IV. Language attitudes and identity issues
    • Introduction. Ethnicity and language: identity issues in the U.S. southwest. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
    • "I am not mexican... pero soy mexicano": linguistic context of labeling among mexican americans in Texas. Julie A. Dowling
    • Todavía decimos "nosotros (los) mexicanos": construction of identity labels among nuevos mexicanos. María Dolores Gonzales
    • Attitudes toward spanish language variation among latinas living in western Colorado. Tyler K. Anderson
  • Section V. Language politics and issues in spanish heritage speaker pedagogy
    • Introduction. The sociopolitics of heritage language education. Jennifer Leeman
    • Research, responsability and repression: anti-bilingualism in Arizona. Holly R. Cashman
    • Different words for different contexts: intra-speaker variation in spanish as a heritage language. Ana Sánchez-Muñoz
    • Reducing spanish on the margins of empire: a historical perspective on ideologies and ecologies of language education in Sonoma County, California. Robert W. Train
  • Authors

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