Growing up Bilingual Puerto Rican Children in New York

by Zentella, Ana Celia

• ISBN13: 9781557864079
• ISBN10: 1557864071
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book provides an inside view of the social construction of bilingualism in one of the largest and most disadvantaged Spanish-speaking groups in the United States. It walks readers through a New York Puerto Rican Community and describes the five varieties of Spanish and English that constitute the community's bilingual and multi-dialectal repertoire, the four major communication patterns that predominate in the homes of twenty families with children, and the syntactic features and discourse strategies of so-called Spanglish.

Author Biography

Ana Celia Zentella, an anthro-political linguist, is Professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, and in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Developmental Psychology at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Table of Contents

We Speak Both: Studying Bilingualism in the Community Context

the Community: El Bloque

the Bilingual/Multidialectal Repertoire of El Bloque

Bilingualism En Casa

the Hows and Whys of "Spanglish"

the Grammar of "Spanglish"

Life and Language in Young Adulthood

Isabel: A Special Case

Spanish Competence

Raising the Next Generation of New York Puerto Ricans

Maria: Learning to Defenderse

Expanding Repertoires: Linking Language, Education, and the New Diversity

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