Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss - Language in the Small Spaces

This book examines minority language maintenance and loss in Spanish-speaking families in communities in the US with a low ethnolinguistic vitality for Spanish. It offers an account of the gendered nature of linguistic transmission and compares the self-perceptions, motivations and attitudes of members of two generations in the same household.

About the author

Isabel Velázquez is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her research interests include bilingualism, sociolinguistics and heritage languages, with a particular focus on Spanish in the United States.

Summary

This book examines minority language maintenance and loss in Spanish-speaking families in communities in the US with a low ethnolinguistic vitality for Spanish. It offers an account of the gendered nature of linguistic transmission and compares the self-perceptions, motivations and attitudes of members of two generations in the same household.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Velázquez, Isabel Velazquez, Isabel Velázquez
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781788922272
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-227-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics