Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies
Kim Potowski, Jason Rothman
The present volume represents a variety of portraits of what happens when families attempt to raise children in Spanish while living in English-speaking societies. Aided by the foregrounding chapter by Suzanne Romaine about language and identity and the afterword by Carol Klee that ties together many issues brought up throughout the collection, the reader gains a more complete understanding of the variables that contribute to Spanish bilingualism in English-speaking societies, and by extension a more complete understanding of the dynamic nature of bilingualism in general. This volume, the first of its kind, brings together an impressive array of sociolinguistic environments while keeping the two languages constant. We hope that it marks the beginning of comparative analyses of bilingualism, acquisition outcomes, and identity construction across environments that share the same languages, but where important disparities exist in the sociolinguistic landscapes.
年:
2011
出版商:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
語言:
english
頁數:
380
ISBN 10:
9027241813
ISBN 13:
9789027241818
系列:
Studies in Bilingualism
文件:
PDF, 3.24 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011