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OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES

Spanish in Chicago

Torres, Lourdes (Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University) & Potowski, Kim (Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Spanish in Chicago

OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES

Spanish in Chicago

OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES: Spanish in Chicago

 

Spanish in Chicago describes the spoken Spanish of Chicago-based Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and MexiRicans across three generations, identifying patterns of change and their likely causes. Through close sociolinguistic analysis of a large corpus of interviews, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres trace the effects of language and dialect contact, providing a vital contribution to sociolinguistics and Latino studies.


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Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population. Identifying Chicago as a rich site for examining language and dialect contact at both community and family levels, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres describe the spoken Spanish of Chicago, analyzing patterns of language change and identity constructions and establishing their likely causes.

Drawing on interviews with 124 individuals across three generations of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Chicagoans, Potowski and Torres trace the effects of language and dialect contact through close sociolinguistic analysis of lexicon, discourse markers, codeswitching, the subjunctive, and phonology. Their analysis uniquely examines these features across three generations of speakers and two different regional origins within the same corpus. By including MexiRicans as a category, the book not only assesses the dynamics of linguistic convergence, dialect leveling, accommodation, and language loss, but also the concept of intrafamiliar dialect contact pioneered by Potowski. Contextualizing these language changes within the history of Latino communities in Chicago, Spanish in Chicago provides a nuanced picture of a minority language in a major US city and a vital contribution to sociolinguistics and Latino studies.


ISBN
9780199326150
Pagina's
336
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Serie
OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES
NUR
616
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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