27.223, Books: The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity: Domínguez-Rosado

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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:19:04
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity: Domínguez-Rosado

Title: The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity 
Subtitle: New Trends in Sight 
Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-unlinking-of-language-and-puerto-rican-identity 

Author: Brenda Domínguez-Rosado

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443880602 Pages: 120 Price: U.K. £ 41.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781443880602 Pages: 120 Price: U.S. $ 71.95

Abstract:

Language and identity have an undeniable link, but what happens when a second
language is imposed on a populace? Can a link be broken or transformed? Are
the attitudes towards the imposed language influential? Can these attitudes
change over time? The mixed-methods results provided by this book are
ground-breaking because they document how historical and traditional attitudes
are changing towards both American English (AE) and Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS)
on an island where the population has been subjected to both Spanish and US
colonization. There are presently almost four million people living in Puerto
Rico, while the Puerto Rican diaspora has surpassed it with more than this
living in the United States alone. Because of this, many members of the
diaspora no longer speak PRS, yet consider themselves to be Puerto Rican.
Traditional stances against people who do not live on the island or speak the
predominant language (PRS) yet wish to identify themselves as Puerto Rican
have historically led to prejudice and strained relationships between people
of Puerto Rican ancestry. The sample study provided here shows that there is
not only a change in attitude towards the traditional link between PRS and
Puerto Rican identity (leading to the inclusion of diasporic Puerto Ricans),
but also a wider acceptance of the English language itself on this Caribbean
island.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)

Written In: English  (eng)

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