Language Contact and Change : Spanish in Los Angeles

Name: Language Contact and Change
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198236443
Price: 11400 KES
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ISBN: 9780198236443

by Silva-Corvalan

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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: Sociolinguistics Dialect, 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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