Book chapter
Spanish-Contact Bilingualism and Identity
BILINGUALISM AND IDENTITY: SPANISH AT THE CROSSROADS WITH OTHER LANGUAGES, Nino-Murcia, Mercedes, & Rothman, Jason [Eds], Amsterdam, the Netherlands: John Benjamins, 2008, pp 11-32
01/01/2008
Abstract
Contemporary sociolinguistic literature is concerned with undertanding the construction of linguistic identity. Spanish-contact situations across the globe present a particularly fruitful background against which linguistic identity can be studied. Since Spanish comes in contact with many languages & dialects in different geographic areas & because Spanish has a range of different social statuses in these situations, comparing & contrasting the sociolinguistic realities of bilingualisms in different Spanish-contact cases can inform theories of language & idenity as well as disentangle variables that are otherwise difficult to properly identify. The present chapter serves as a resourse to the reader of this volume in that it (a) reviews the sociolinguist literature pertinent to the concepts & argumentation discussed/offered in each chapter & (b) highlights the collective impact the individual studies in this volume have for current theorizing.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Spanish-Contact Bilingualism and Identity
- Creators
- Mercedes Nino-MurciaJason Rothman
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- BILINGUALISM AND IDENTITY: SPANISH AT THE CROSSROADS WITH OTHER LANGUAGES, Nino-Murcia, Mercedes, & Rothman, Jason [Eds], Amsterdam, the Netherlands: John Benjamins, 2008, pp 11-32
- ISSN
- 0928-1533
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9984222750502771
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