Language Contact and Change : Spanish in Los Angeles
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Language Contact
ISBN-10
0198236441
ISBN-13
9780198236443
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 27th, 1996
Print length
270 Pages
Weight
430 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.60 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
SociolinguisticsDialect, slang & jargon
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Spanish, the language of the conquerors, is now subordinate to English in California. This book makes an original contribution to our growing knowledge of processes involved in language maintenance, shift, and loss by examining the Spanish spoken by an intergenerational sample of Mexican-American bilinguals in Los Angeles.
Languages in a situation of contact, whether they are receding or being maintained by their speakers, are characterized by constant and rapid change. Thus they provide a testing ground for hypotheses about processes of linguistic change. In this original study of an intergenerational sample of Spanish-English bilinguals in Los Angeles County, Carmen Silva-Corvalán explores in depth the linguistic, cognitive, and social processes underlying language maintenance, as well as changes characteristic of language shift and loss, bringing together analytical techniques employed in sociolinguistics, functional syntax, and discourse analysis.
Although the large Hispanic community of Los Angeles is basically a geographically stable urban community, bound by historical, social, linguistic, and cultural factors, both its boundaries and its internal structure are impermanent and undergoing constant change.In this original study of Spanish-English bilinguals in Los Angeles County, Carmen Silva-Corvalán explores in depth the linguistic, cognitive, and social processes underlying language maintenance, as well as changes characteristic of language shift and loss. She brings together analytical techniques employed in sociolinguistics, functional syntax, and discourse analysis.
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