36.256, Books: Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss: Velázquez (2025)

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Subject: 36.256, Books: Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss: Velázquez (2025)

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Date: 17-Jan-2025
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss: Velázquez (2025)


Title: Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and
Loss
Subtitle: Language in the Small Spaces
Series Title: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL:
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788928687

Author(s): Isabel Velázquez

Pbk ISBN 9781788928687 £29.95 / US$39.95 / €34.95

Abstract:

Now available in paperback!
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




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