28.2054, Books: Being Bilingual in Borinquen: Pousada (ed.)
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Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 18:35:37
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Being Bilingual in Borinquen: Pousada (ed.)
Title: Being Bilingual in Borinquen
Subtitle: Student Voices from the University of Puerto Rico
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/being-bilingual-in-borinquen
Editor: Alicia Pousada
Hardback: ISBN: 9781443889940 Pages: 195 Price: U.K. £ 58.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781443889940 Pages: 195 Price: U.S. $ 99.95
Abstract:
The Spanish-speaking island of Puerto Rico (also known as Borinquen) has had a
complex linguistic landscape since 1898, due to the United States’ colonial
imposition of English as the language of administration and education. Even
after 1948, when Puerto Rico was finally permitted to hold its own
gubernatorial elections and determine its own language policies, controversy
regarding how best to achieve bilingualism continued. Despite many studies of
the language dynamic of the island, the voices of the people who actually live
there have been muted.
This volume opens with a basic introduction to bilingualism, with special
reference to Puerto Rico. It then showcases twenty-five engaging personal
histories written by Puerto Rican language professionals which reveal how they
became bilingual, the obstacles faced, the benefits accrued, and the
linguistic and cultural future they envision for themselves and their
children. The closing chapter analyzes the commonalities of their richly
detailed stories as well as the variability of their bilingual life
experiences in order to inform a more nuanced language policy for Puerto Rico.
The linguistic autobiographies will resonate with bilinguals of all kinds in
Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, as well as those in other countries. The main
message that emerges from the book is that there are many routes to
multilingualism, and one-size-fits-all language policies are doomed to miss
their mark.
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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