Contribution to Book
Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos
The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics
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
2-1-2011
Publication Date
01 Feb 2011
Disciplines
Citation Information
Jorge Porcel. "Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos" The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics (2011) p. 623 - 645 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jorge-porcel/3/