Authors: Ana Celia Zentella
ISBN-13: 9781557864079, ISBN-10: 1557864071
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: December 2007
Edition: 1st Edition
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.
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.
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1 | "Hablamos los dos. We speak both:" Studying Bilingualism in the Community Context | 1 |
2 | The Community: el bloque | 17 |
3 | The Bilingual/Multidialectal Repertoire of el bloque | 41 |
4 | Bilingualism en casa | 56 |
5 | The Hows and Whys of "Spanglish" | 80 |
6 | The Grammar of "Spanglish" | 115 |
7 | Life and Language in Young Adulthood | 137 |
8 | Isabel: A Special Case | 160 |
9 | Spanish Competence | 179 |
10 | Raising the Next Generation of New York Puerto Ricans | 213 |
11 | Maria: Learning to defenderse | 244 |
12 | Expanding Repertoires: Linking Language, Education, and the New Diversity | 262 |
Notes | 289 | |
References | 300 | |
Index | 316 |