Spanish in Contact; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Heritage Spanish in the Unites States; Subjects in early dual language development; Interpreting mood distinctions in Spanish as a heritage language; Anglicismos en el léxico disponible de los adolescentes hispanos de Chicago; Education and policy issues; Teaching Spanish in the U.S.; The politics of English and Spanish aquí y allá; Language attitudes and the lexical de-Castilianization of Valencian; Are Galicians bound to diglossia?; Pragmatics and contact
This volume, covering a range of topics such as Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, policy issues, pragmatics and language contact, sociolinguistic variation and contact, and Bozal (Creole) Spanish, will serve the interests of linguists, educators, and policy makers alike. It provides cutting edge research on varieties of Spanish spoken by children, teenagers, and adults in places as diverse as Chicago, New York, New Mexico, and Houston; Valencia and Galicia; the Andean highlands; and the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The emphasis is on spoken Spanish, altho
