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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language brings together contributions from leading linguists, educators and Latino Studies scholars involved in teaching and working with Spanish heritage language speakers.
This state-of-the-art overview covers a range of topics within five broad areas: Spanish in U.S. public life, Spanish heritage language use and systems, educational contexts, Latino studies perspectives and Spanish outside the U.S.
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language addresses for the first time the linguistic, educational and social aspects of heritage Spanish speakers in one volume making it an indispensable reference for anyone working with Spanish as a heritage language.
List of contents
1. Spanish as a heritage/minority language: A multifaceted look at ten nations Kim Potowski Part I. Social issues2. A historical view of US latinidad and Spanish as a heritage language Andrew Lynch3. Spanish in U.S. language policy and politics Phillip M. Carter 4. Spanish language use, maintenance, and shift in the United States Devin Jenkins5. Spanish in linguistic landscapes of the U.S. José M. Franco-Rodríguez6. Linguistics and Latino studies: intersections for the advancement of linguistic and social justice Lourdes Torres7. Spanish and identity among Latin@s in the U.S. Rachel Showstack8. Spanish as a heritage language and the negotiation of race and intra-Latina/o hierarchies in the U.S. Rosalyn Negrón9. Queering Spanish as a heritage language Holly Cashman and Juan Antonio TrujilloPart II. Linguistic studies 10. Morphology, syntax and semantics in Spanish as a heritage language Silvina Montrul11.. Heritage Spanish phonetics and phonology Rebecca Ronquest and Rajiv Rao12. The lexicon of Spanish heritage language speakers Marta Fairclough and Anel Garza13. Heritage Spanish pragmatics Derrin Pinto14. Neurolinguistic approaches to Spanish as a heritage language Harriet Wood Bowden and Bernard Issa15. Psycholinguistic perspectives on heritage Spanish Jill Jegerski16. Child heritage speakers' morphosyntax: rate of acquisition and crosslinguistic influenceNaomi Shin17. Sociolinguistic variation in U.S. Spanish Rena Torres Cacoullos and Grant M. Berry.../part contents
About the author
Kim Potowski is Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Summary
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language brings together contributions from leading linguists, educators and Latino Studies scholars involved in teaching and working with Spanish heritage language speakers.
Report
"Con este volumen, el joven campo del español como lengua heredada alcanza su madurez y consolida su importancia dentro de la lingüística aplicada. Estos 36 estudios, firmados por un extraordinario elenco de expertos, ofrecen análisis desde una multiplicidad de contextos y ángulos, algunos muy novedosos. Potowski ha logrado ensamblar una magnífica obra coral."
Francisco Moreno Fernández, Universidad de Alcalá and Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University
"The breadth of scholarship collected here, including leading researchers in Latino studies, various disciplines of linguistics, and education, is the result of Potowski's vision for these fields to inform each other with the goal of improving circumstances for diasporic Spanish-speaking populations around the world. These analyses push our understandings of critical topics, and many chapters inspire advocacy for marginalized populations. An essential volume."
Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of California Los Angeles