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Authors: Ana Celia Zentella
ISBN-13: 9781557864079, ISBN-10: 1557864071
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: December 2007
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Ana Celia Zentella

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of figures
List of tables
Key to transcription conventions
1"Hablamos los dos. We speak both:" Studying Bilingualism in the Community Context1
2The Community: el bloque17
3The Bilingual/Multidialectal Repertoire of el bloque41
4Bilingualism en casa56
5The Hows and Whys of "Spanglish"80
6The Grammar of "Spanglish"115
7Life and Language in Young Adulthood137
8Isabel: A Special Case160
9Spanish Competence179
10Raising the Next Generation of New York Puerto Ricans213
11Maria: Learning to defenderse244
12Expanding Repertoires: Linking Language, Education, and the New Diversity262
Notes289
References300
Index316

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