Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos

The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 623-645

  Porcel, Jorge ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics of LMLS, at societal and individual levels processes, directionality changing any time; European nation states, and their success promoting ideology of monolingualism; Language assessments, and two measures two different times (real time technique) or two different generations; Language attitudes surfacing as sentiments of loyalty or antipathy, manifesting through behaviors as language interventions; Language maintenance and language shift among US Latinos; Language maintenance and language shift (LMLS) outcomes of societal bilingualism; Socio structural variables encompassing social descriptors in which society is organized; Spatial distribution of speech communities focus on concentration, adjoining minorities and urbanization; Two basic stages in study of LMLS; Western societies, and language shift (LS) frequent resolutions

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EID: 84885522954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444393446.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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