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Spanish in Chicago

Potowski Kim Torres, Lourdes
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199326150
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
157 mm
Bredde
226 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
344

Forfatter
Potowski Kim
Torres, Lourdes

Biografisk notat

Kim Potowski is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States, including factors that influence language maintenance and connections between language, education, and identity. She is the founder of the Language in Context Research Group and author or editor of several books, including The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language and Language Diversity in the USA. Her advocacy for the value of dual language education in promoting bilingualism and biliteracy was the focus of her TEDx talk "No Child Left Monolingual." Lourdes Torres is Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. She is the editor of the journal Latino Studies and the series co-editor of the Global Latin/o American Series of the University of Ohio Press. Her research and teaching interests include sociolinguistics, Spanish in the US, and Queer Latinidades. She is the author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism and Tortilleras: Hispanic and the Latina Lesbian Expression.

Spanish in Chicago

Potowski Kim Torres, Lourdes
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
Potowski Kim Torres, Lourdes
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
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Potowski & Torres suggest that future research include ethnographic data and examine more linguistic features that distinguish Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish varieties, such as prosody or subject pronouns. This work lays a solid foundation for such endeavors, and it is a significant contribution to sociolinguistics

Jazmine Exford, Language in Society

Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population. Identifying Chicago as a rich site for examining language and dialect contact at both community and family levels, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres describe the spoken Spanish of Chicago, analyzing patterns of language change and identity constructions and establishing their likely causes. Drawing on interviews with 124 individuals across three generations of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Chicagoans, Potowski and Torres trace the effects of language and dialect contact through close sociolinguistic analysis of lexicon, discourse markers, codeswitching, the subjunctive, and phonology. Their analysis uniquely examines these features across three generations of speakers and two different regional origins within the same corpus. By including MexiRicans as a category, the book not only assesses the dynamics of linguistic convergence, dialect leveling, accommodation, and language loss, but also the concept of intrafamiliar dialect contact pioneered by Potowski. Contextualizing these language changes within the history of Latino communities in Chicago, Spanish in Chicago provides a nuanced picture of a minority language in a major US city and a vital contribution to sociolinguistics and Latino studies.
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Chapter 1: Spanish in the U.S. and in Chicago: Contact and Loss Chapter 2: The Chicago (Chi-) Spanish (Spa-) "CHISPA" corpus Chapter 3: Lexical Familiarity Chapter 4: Discourse Markers Chapter 5: Codeswitching Chapter 6: Subjunctive Chapter 7: Phonology Chapter 8: Factors Underlying Spanish Development Chapter 9: Conclusions
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"Potowski & Torres suggest that future research include ethnographic data and examine more linguistic features that distinguish Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish varieties, such as prosody or subject pronouns. This work lays a solid foundation for such endeavors, and it is a significant contribution to sociolinguistics" -- Jazmine Exford, Language in Society
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Kim Potowski is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States, including factors that influence language maintenance and connections between language, education, and identity. She is the founder of the Language in Context Research Group and author or editor of several books, including The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language and Language Diversity in the USA. Her advocacy for the value of dual language education in promoting bilingualism and biliteracy was the focus of her TEDx talk "No Child Left Monolingual." Lourdes Torres is Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. She is the editor of the journal Latino Studies and the series co-editor of the Global Latin/o American Series of the University of Ohio Press. Her research and teaching interests include sociolinguistics, Spanish in the US, and Queer Latinidades. She is the author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism and Tortilleras: Hispanic and the Latina Lesbian Expression.
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Selling point: Presents a sociolinguistic description and analysis of Spanish in Chicago, where Mexican Spanish, Puerto Rican Spanish, and English have been spoken for decades Selling point: Contributes to broader discussions of language and dialect contact outcomes through a nuanced analysis of two minority language variants in long-term contact with a dominant language Selling point: Draws on a corpus of 124 interviews with Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Chicagoans across three generations
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Potowski & Torres suggest that future research include ethnographic data and examine more linguistic features that distinguish Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish varieties, such as prosody or subject pronouns. This work lays a solid foundation for such endeavors, and it is a significant contribution to sociolinguistics

Jazmine Exford, Language in Society

Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population. Identifying Chicago as a rich site for examining language and dialect contact at both community and family levels, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres describe the spoken Spanish of Chicago, analyzing patterns of language change and identity constructions and establishing their likely causes. Drawing on interviews with 124 individuals across three generations of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Chicagoans, Potowski and Torres trace the effects of language and dialect contact through close sociolinguistic analysis of lexicon, discourse markers, codeswitching, the subjunctive, and phonology. Their analysis uniquely examines these features across three generations of speakers and two different regional origins within the same corpus. By including MexiRicans as a category, the book not only assesses the dynamics of linguistic convergence, dialect leveling, accommodation, and language loss, but also the concept of intrafamiliar dialect contact pioneered by Potowski. Contextualizing these language changes within the history of Latino communities in Chicago, Spanish in Chicago provides a nuanced picture of a minority language in a major US city and a vital contribution to sociolinguistics and Latino studies.
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Chapter 1: Spanish in the U.S. and in Chicago: Contact and Loss Chapter 2: The Chicago (Chi-) Spanish (Spa-) "CHISPA" corpus Chapter 3: Lexical Familiarity Chapter 4: Discourse Markers Chapter 5: Codeswitching Chapter 6: Subjunctive Chapter 7: Phonology Chapter 8: Factors Underlying Spanish Development Chapter 9: Conclusions
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"Potowski & Torres suggest that future research include ethnographic data and examine more linguistic features that distinguish Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish varieties, such as prosody or subject pronouns. This work lays a solid foundation for such endeavors, and it is a significant contribution to sociolinguistics" -- Jazmine Exford, Language in Society
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Kim Potowski is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States, including factors that influence language maintenance and connections between language, education, and identity. She is the founder of the Language in Context Research Group and author or editor of several books, including The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language and Language Diversity in the USA. Her advocacy for the value of dual language education in promoting bilingualism and biliteracy was the focus of her TEDx talk "No Child Left Monolingual." Lourdes Torres is Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. She is the editor of the journal Latino Studies and the series co-editor of the Global Latin/o American Series of the University of Ohio Press. Her research and teaching interests include sociolinguistics, Spanish in the US, and Queer Latinidades. She is the author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism and Tortilleras: Hispanic and the Latina Lesbian Expression.
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Selling point: Presents a sociolinguistic description and analysis of Spanish in Chicago, where Mexican Spanish, Puerto Rican Spanish, and English have been spoken for decades Selling point: Contributes to broader discussions of language and dialect contact outcomes through a nuanced analysis of two minority language variants in long-term contact with a dominant language Selling point: Draws on a corpus of 124 interviews with Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Chicagoans across three generations
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199326150
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
157 mm
Bredde
226 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
344

Forfatter
Potowski Kim
Torres, Lourdes

Biografisk notat

Kim Potowski is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States, including factors that influence language maintenance and connections between language, education, and identity. She is the founder of the Language in Context Research Group and author or editor of several books, including The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language and Language Diversity in the USA. Her advocacy for the value of dual language education in promoting bilingualism and biliteracy was the focus of her TEDx talk "No Child Left Monolingual." Lourdes Torres is Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. She is the editor of the journal Latino Studies and the series co-editor of the Global Latin/o American Series of the University of Ohio Press. Her research and teaching interests include sociolinguistics, Spanish in the US, and Queer Latinidades. She is the author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism and Tortilleras: Hispanic and the Latina Lesbian Expression.

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