29.2029, Diss: Spanish; Sociolinguistics: Luis Guzmán Valerio: ''Perspectives from the Streets and the Classrooms in the Same ‘Hood: Linguistic Landscapes of Sunset Park, Brooklyn''

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Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 11:32:10
From: Luis Guzmán Valerio [luisalejandroguzman at hotmail.com]
Subject: Perspectives from the Streets and the Classrooms in the Same ‘Hood: Linguistic Landscapes of Sunset Park, Brooklyn

 
Institution: CUNY Graduate Center 
Program: Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2018 

Author: Luis Guzmán Valerio

Dissertation Title: Perspectives from the Streets and the Classrooms in the
Same ‘Hood: Linguistic Landscapes of Sunset Park, Brooklyn 

Dissertation URL:  https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2564/

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)


Dissertation Director(s):
Ofelia García
Ricardo Otheguy
Beatriz Lado

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation studies the linguistic landscape of the neighborhood of
Sunset Park, in Brooklyn, New York by taking into account both a main
commercial avenue and a public school with a dual language bilingual program
in English and Spanish. Sunset Park is a multi-ethnic and immigrant
neighborhood (Hum, 2014). While research has been done into the linguistic
landscape of streets, cities, and communities, on the one hand, and about the
linguistic landscape in education, on the other, the co-existence of these two
in the same context has barely been studied (cf. Maldonado, 2015). This
dissertation makes a contribution to the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies
by taking both into account. Building on Gorter and Cenoz (2014), I ask: How
do the linguistic landscape of the community and the school compare and what
meanings can we infer from the difference about the power relations between
English and Spanish? Samples of the linguistic landscape of the street and
that of the school were collected, counted, and codified according to named
language(s), monoglossic or heteroglossic language representation, informative
or symbolic message function, and top-down or bottom-up authorship. The
streetscape and the schoolscape followed several of the same tendencies in
terms of a preponderance of English, a monoglossic representation of language,
a preponderance of informative messages, and mostly bottom-up authorship of
the signs. However, the school evidenced a stricter separation of languages
and a greater percentage of monolingual signs. It was also found that
Spanish/English bilingualism has political power by being used on signs of
community and political organizing. Finally, the linguistic landscape of both
the school and the street are connected to the cyberscape.




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