Spanglish
By: edited by Ilan Stavans.
Contributors: Stavans, Ilan.
Series: The Ilan Stavans library of Latino civilization
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780313348044
Subjects: Spanish language -- Foreign elements -- English; English language -- Influence on Spanish; Languages in contact -- America
Description: Discusses the roots of Spanglish, which reach back to the annexation of Mexican territories by the U.S. in the nineteenth century and its modern use in urban cities and rural areas nation-wide, with essays, reviews, and interviews by various scholars about the cultural and historical context of the hybrid slang.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Our linguistic and social context / Rosaura Sánchez; title: The grammar of Spanglish / Ana Celia Zentella; title: The gravitas of Spanglish /   Ilan Stavans; title: Boricua (between) borders / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel; title: Que, qué? : transculturation and Tato Laviera's Spanglish poetics / Stephanie Alvarez Martínez; title: The flying tongue /  Peter Monaghan; title: Is 'Spanglish' a language? / Roberto González Echaverría; title: Waving the Star-Spanglish Banner / Ariel Dorfman; title: Linguistic terrorism / Gloria Anzaldúa; title: Anniversary crónica / Susana Chávez-Silverman; title: Nomah / Ilan Stavans.