Spanish in the United States - Linguistic Contact and Diversity

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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife and per capita gross national product in inter-polity perspective -- A reconsideration of the notion of loan translation in the analysis of U.S. Spanish -- The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the U.S.-Mexico border: A two-generation study -- Spanish clitics in a contact situation -- Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami: A 1988 update -- Literacy stories: Features of unplanned oral discourse -- Language maintenance institutions of the Isleño dialect of Spanish -- Convergent conceptualizations as predictors of degree of contact in U.S. Spanish -- Creoloid phenomena in the Spanish of transitional bilinguals -- Diversification and Pan-Latinity: Projections for the teaching of Spanish to bilinguals -- Oral proficiency testing and the bilingual speaker -- Index

Product details

• Assisted by: John M. Lipski (Editor), M Lipski (Editor), M Lipski (Editor), An Roca (Editor), Ana Roca (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1993
• EAN: 9783110132045
• ISBN: 978-3-11-013204-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 19 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Illustrations: 7 b/w ill.
• Series: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies