Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Language ideologies
  • Bilingualism and language experience
  • Features of language ideologies
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Discussion exercises
  • Suggested readings
  • Notes
  • 2. Language attitudes
  • Attitudes and ideologies
  • Attitudes about language and identity
  • Attitudes about language variation
  • Attitudes about language maintenance
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Discussion exercises
  • Suggested readings
  • 3. Language maintenance and shift
  • Language shift
  • Motivations for language shift
  • Language shift in the Mexican American community
  • Language shift and immigration : illusion or infusion?
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Discussion exercises
  • Suggested readings
  • 4. Mexican American Spanish
  • Language variation
  • Proficiency discontinuities
  • Stylistic discontinuities
  • Social discontinuities
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Discussion exercises
  • Suggested readings
  • 5. Mexican American English
  • Vernacularization in Mexican American English
  • Minority dialect convergence in Mexican American English
  • Regional dialect convergence in Mexican American English
  • Acts of identity in Mexican American English
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Discussion exercises
  • Suggested readings
  • 6. Mexican American code switching
  • The forms of code switching
  • The functions of code switching
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Discussion exercises
  • Suggested readings
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Glossary.