30.258, Books: Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss: Velázquez

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Subject: 30.258, Books: Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss: Velázquez

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:43:04
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss: Velázquez

 


Title: Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss 
Subtitle: Language in the Small Spaces 
Series Title: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922272 


Author: Isabel Velázquez

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788922272 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 139.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788922272 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 99.95


Abstract:

This book provides an in-depth examination of minority language maintenance
and loss within a group of first-generation Spanish-speaking families in the
early-21st century, post-industrial, hyper-globalized US Midwest, an area that
has a recent history of Latino settlement and has a low ethnolinguistic
vitality for Spanish. It looks specifically at language ‘in the small spaces’,
that is, everyday interactions within households and families, and gives a
detailed account of the gendered nature of linguistic transmission in
immigrant households, as well as offering insights into the sociolinguistic
aspects of language contact dynamics. Starting with the question of why
speakers choose to use and transmit their family language in communities with
few opportunities to use it, this book presents the reader with a theoretical
model of language maintenance in low vitality settings. It incorporates
mothers’ voices and perspectives on mothering, their families’ well-being, and
their role in cultural/linguistic transmission and compares the
self-perceptions, motivations, attitudes and language acquisition histories of
members of two generations within the same household. It will appeal to
researchers and educators interested in bilingualism, language maintenance and
family language dynamics as well as to those working in the areas of
education, immigration and sociology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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