Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles

by Carmen Silva-Corvalan

2020-11-24 19:33:47

Although the large Hispanic community of Los Angeles is basically a geographically stable urban community, bound by historical, social, linguistic, and cultural factors, both its boundaries and its internal structure are impermanent and undergoing co... Read more
Although the large Hispanic community of Los Angeles is basically a geographically stable urban community, bound by historical, social, linguistic, and cultural factors, both its boundaries and its internal structure are impermanent and undergoing constant change.In this original study of Spanish-English bilinguals in Los Angeles County, Carmen Silva-Corvalan explores in depth the linguistic, cognitive, and social processes underlying language maintenance, as well as changes characteristic of language shift and loss. She brings together analytical techniquesemployed in sociolinguistics, functional syntax, and discourse analysis. Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0.63 in
Print pages270
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date April 30, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780198236443
Carmen Silva-Corvalán is a professor of Spanish and linguistics at the University of Southern California. She is author of Spanish in Four Continents:Studies in Language Contact (GUP) and Bilingual L...

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