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.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

section Section I|85 pages

Border speech communities

chapter 1|18 pages

Language and borders

Case studies from the U.S. Southwest

chapter 3|18 pages

Bilingualism in California

The case of Los Angeles

section Section II|83 pages

Outcomes and perceptions in situations of language and dialect contact

chapter 5|24 pages

Languages in contact

Pidginization and creolization, Spanish in the Caribbean

chapter 6|26 pages

Dominican-Haitian contact in Hispaniola

Historical and sociolinguistic perspectives

chapter 7|31 pages

Languages in contact

The case of Colombia

section Section III|113 pages

Contact and alternation

chapter 9|20 pages

Language contact in Paraguay

Cultural fusion in a unique sociolinguistic situation

chapter 11|19 pages

Languages in contact

Grammaticalization and complexification in northern Andean gerundianismo