El Espanol De Los Estados Unidos

The first text in Spanish that synthesises and analyses up-to-date research on the varieties of Spanish spoken in the US.

List of contents

1. Socio-historical context; 2. Present populations and patterns of Spanish use; 3. Dialectal features of the Spanish of the United States; 4. Speakers and the Spanish of the United States; 5. Spanish in contact with English; 6. Dialect contact; 7. Spanish in public space; 8. Spanish in education; 9. Spanish and identity; 10. Ethnolinguistic vitality: a look to the future.

About the author

Anna Maria Escobar is Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Kim Potowski is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Maria Escobar, Anna Maria (University of Illinois Escobar, Anna Maria Potowski Escobar, Escobar Anna Maria, Kim Potowski, Potowski Kim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: Spanish
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107086340
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08634-0
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Ethnic Studies, Linguistics, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Sociolinguistics, Hispanic & Latino Studies