Spanish in Contact

Age Range: Adult
Authors: Ana Roca and John B. Jensen (eds)
Cost: $23.95

Publisher: Cascadilla Press
Phone: (617) 776-2370

Publisher's Description:

This collection of papers addresses the wide variety of questions that arise when Spanish (or any language) comes into contact with other languages. Which languages are used and under what circumstances? How do the languages change and affect each other in a bilingual or multilingual environment? How do societal pressures, cultural stereotypes and individual attitudes toward a language or language group affect language use, development, or even result in language death?

The answers are of interest to sociolinguists and generative linguists. Spanish in Contact is organized into three sections, examining contact situations in Spain, Latin America and the United States. The authors examine areas where Spanish is the dominant language as well as where it is the minority language, and discuss language attitudes as well as language change in the lexicon, phonology and syntax of the affected languages. Code switching and issues in language planning are also addressed.

Contents

• Robert M. Hammond, "Helebiduntasuna Euskadin: El Bilingüismo en el País Vasco"
• Jasone Cenoz, "Learning a Third Language: Basque, Spanish, and English"
• Hope N. Doyle, "Referents of Catalan and Spanish for Bilingual Youths in Barcelona"
• Margarita Hidalgo, "A Profile of Language Issues in Contemporary Mexico"
• Carol A. Klee, "The Spanish of the Peruvian Andes: The Influence of Quechua on Spanish Language Structure"
• Yolanda Russinovich Solé, "Language, Affect, and Nationalism in Paraguay"
• Florencia Cortés-Conde, "Is Stable Bilingualism Possible in an Immigrational Setting? The Anglo-Argentine Case"
• Robert N. Smead and J. Halvor Clegg, "English Calques in Chicano Spanish"
• Mehmet Yavas, "Difference in Voice Onset Time in Early and Later Spanish-English Bilinguals"
• Marguerite G. MacDonald, "Bilinguals in Little Havana: The Phonology of a New Generation"
• Jorge M. Guitart, "Spanish in Contact with Itself and the Phonological Characterization of Conservative and Radical Styles"
• John M. Lipski, "Patterns of Pronominal Evolution in Cuban-American Bilinguals"
• Francesco d'Introno, "Spanish-English Code Switching: Conditions on Movement"
• Almeida Jacqueline Toribio and Edward J. Rubin, "Code-Switching in Generative Grammar"

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