Spanish Speakers in the USA

by Fuller, Janet M.

• ISBN13: 9781847698780
• ISBN10: 1847698786
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-24
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This text presents an interdisciplinary perspective on Spanish speakers in the US, looking at how language and culture are intertwined. It explores attitudes about Spanish and its speakers; how Spanish and English are used in a variety of US contexts; how Spanish has changed through its contact with English and the education of Latin@s in the U.S. school system.

Author Biography

Janet M. Fuller is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She has done research on many facets of multilingualism, including the social identities and language use of children in Spanish-English bilingual classrooms in the USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: IDEOLOGIES AND IDENTITIES
Chapter One: Language Ideologies and Language Policies
Chapter Two: Language and Identity
Chapter Three: “Race”, Ethnicity and the Language of Latinos in the US
Chapter Four: Media Representations of Spanish and Spanish Speakers in US English Language TV and Film: Production and Reproduction of Ideologies
Part II: LANGUAGE PRACTICES
Chapter Five: Spanish Language Maintenance and Shift in the US
Chapter Six: Linguistic Consequences of Spanish-English Bilingualism in the US: Spanglish and Chican@ English
Chapter Seven: Latin@ Education in the US
Glossary
Index