Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world
Subtitle: linguistic and cognitive perspectives
By: Jennifer Austin, Rutgers University, Newark ; María Blume, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú ; Liliana Sánchez, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Contributors: Blume, María, author; Sánchez, Liliana, author
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521115537; 9780521132978
Subjects: Languages in contact; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Social aspects; Bilingualism; Language policies; Spanish language
Description: "Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local government. This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools, code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena affect the linguistic and cognitive development of the speaker. Using examples and case studies drawn primarily from Spanish/English bilinguals in the US, Spanish/Quechua bilinguals in Peru and Spanish/Basque bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse perspectives on the experience of being bilingual in distinct cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. What does it mean to be bilingual?; 2. Bilingual brains, bilingual minds; 3. Bilingual development and bilingual outcomes; Conclusions.