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Mexican Americans and language : del dicho al hecho /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | Mexican American experience.
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| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.