ABSTRACT
Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistic Case Studies provides an original and modern analysis of the field of language change and variation with a specific focus on Spanish as a language in contact.
This edited collection, focuses on diachronic variationist approaches to the Spanish language in contact with other languages from a historical sociolinguistics perspective.
Topics covered include: language planning and policies, education, biculturalism, linguistic variation issues in the Spanish of the southwestern United States, and other socio-historical and anthropological aspects of the contact situation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|85 pages
Border speech communities
section Section II|83 pages
Outcomes and perceptions in situations of language and dialect contact
chapter 6|26 pages
Dominican-Haitian contact in Hispaniola
section Section III|113 pages
Contact and alternation