The multilingual Apple : languages in New York City /

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This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and contin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fishman, Joshua A., García, Ofelia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
Edición:2nd ed. /
Temas:
Linguistic minorities > New York (State) > New York.
Sociolinguistics > New York (State) > New York.
Minorités linguistiques > New York (État) > New York.
Sociolinguistique > New York (État) > New York.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages
Linguistic minorities
Sociolinguistics
Meertaligheid.
Talen.
New York (N.Y.) > Languages.
New York (State) > New York
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE
  • New York's multilingualism: World languages and their role in a U.S. city
  • II. THE LANGUAGE OF EARLY ARRIVALS: STILL ENCOUNTERED
  • Irish in nineteenth century New York
  • German in New York
  • Yiddish in New York
  • III. THE LANGUAGES WITH VITALITY IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
  • Italian in New York
  • Greek in New York
  • Spanish in New York
  • Hebrew in New York
  • IV. THE LANGUAGES WITH THE NEWEST SOUNDS AND OF NEWEST FACES
  • Chinese in New York
  • The languages of India in New York
  • Haitian Creole in New York.
  • English Caribbean Creole in New York
  • V. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE
  • Do ethnics have culture? And what's so special about New York anyway?
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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