Spanish in the United States
Subtitle: linguistic contact and diversity
By: edited by Ana Roca and John M. Lipski.
Contributors: Roca, Ana.; Lipski, John M.
Series: Studies in anthropological linguistics ;; 6
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Language maintenance -- United States.; Spanish language -- Social aspects -- United States.; Sociolinguistics.; Languages in contact -- United States.; Bilingualism -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife, and per capita gross national product in inter-polity perspective / Joshua A. Fishman; title: A reconsideration of the notion of loan translation in the analysis of U.S. Spanish / Ricardo Otheguy; title: The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the US-Mexico border / Margarita Hidalgo; title: Spanish clitics in a contact situation / Manuel J. Gutiérrez and Carmen Silva-Corvalán; title: Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami / Barbara Zurer Pearson and Arlene McGee; title: Literacy stories / René Cisneros and Betty Leone; title: Language maintenance institutions of the Isleño dialect of Spanish / Felice Anne Coles; title: Convergent conceptualizations as predictors of degree of contact in U.S. Spanish / Ricardo Otheguy and Ofelia García; title: Creoloid phenomena in the Spanish of transitional bilinguals / John M. Lipski; title: Diversification and Pan-Latinity / Frances R. Aparicio; title: Oral proficiency testing and the bilingual speaker / David Burnwell.