Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos
Recommended Citation
Porcel, J. (2011). Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos. The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics, pp. 623-645. John Wiley & Sons.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444393446.ch29
Department(s)
Arts, Languages, and Philosophy
Keywords and Phrases
Dynamics of LMLS, at societal and individual levels - processes, directionality changing any time; European nation states, and their success - promoting ideology of monolingualism; Language assessments, and two measures - two different times (real time technique) or two different generations; Language attitudes surfacing - as sentiments of loyalty or antipathy, manifesting through behaviors as language interventions; Language maintenance - and language shift among US Latinos; Language maintenance and language shift (LMLS) - outcomes of societal bilingualism; Socio-structural variables - encompassing social descriptors in which society is organized; Spatial distribution of speech communities - focus on concentration, adjoining minorities and urbanization; Two basic stages - in study of LMLS; Western societies, and language shift (LS) - frequent resolutions
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-140519500-3
Document Type
Book - Chapter
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Feb 2011
