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.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Isabel Velázquez, Isabel Velazquez, Isabel Velázquez
• Edition: Ingram Publishers Services
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781788922272
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-227-2
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Poids: 494 g
• Thèmes: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Multilingual Matters; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Catégories: Livres de conseils > Psychologie, quotidien > Famille; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique générale et comparée; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Family & relationships, Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues