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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: M. Rafael SalaberryPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd Imprint: Multilingual Matters Volume: No. 6 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.406kg ISBN: 9781847691781ISBN 10: 1847691781 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 18 June 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Language Allegiances - Rafael Salaberry Chapter 2: Language attitudes and linguistic outcomes in Reading, Pennsylvania - Jacqueline Toribio Chapter 3: A Sociolinguistic View of Speech Sciences - Nancy Niedzielski Chapter 4: Linguistic Profiling: The Linguistic Point of View - Dennis R. Preston Chapter 5: The Bilingual's Hoarse Voice: Losing Rights in Two Languages - Sandra Del Valle Chapter 6: Problems with the 'language-as-resource' discourse in the promotion of heritage languages in the USA - Thomas Ricento Chapter 7: English Hegemony and the Politics of Ethno-Linguistic Justice in the United States - Ronald Schmidt Chapter 8: Livin' and Teachin' la lengua loca: Glocalizing U.S. Spanish ideologies and practices - Ofelia Garcia Chapter 9: Bilingual education: Assimilation, segregation and integration - Rafael SalaberryReviewsThis book offers a well-made selection of illuminating perspectives on the relation between language and identity in the United States. The contributors - an all-star cast - study the conditions under which beliefs and attitudes towards language are produced and survey the roles they play and effects they have within the fields of culture, education, and politics. With this volume, the sociology of language takes a step forward in its long-standing effort to produce a coherent articulation of language and politics as an object of research. -- Jose del Valle, The Graduate Center - CUNY, USA The chapters in the book are engaging, critical and current, in that they present the political and social discourses at the micro and macro level - something to imbue our thinking. -- Nydia Flores-Ferran, Department of Spanish and Portugese, Rutgers State University The Journal of Sociolinguistics This book offers a well-made selection of illuminating perspectives on the relation between language and identity in the United States. The contributors - an all-star cast - study the conditions under which beliefs and attitudes towards language are produced and survey the roles they play and effects they have within the fields of culture, education, and politics. With this volume, the sociology of language takes a step forward in its long-standing effort to produce a coherent articulation of language and politics as an object of research. Jose del Valle, The Graduate Center - CUNY, USA Author InformationAuthor Website: http://webspace.utexas.edu/mrs2429/www"M. Rafael Salaberry (PhD, Cornell University) is Professor of Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of Texas-Austin). Prof. SalaberryaEURO(t)s research focuses on (1) the development of tense and aspect among adult second language learners, (2) second language teaching, including methodology, testing and web-based learning and (3) bilingual education. His research is presented in several books published by John Benjamins (2000, 2002, 2005), Georgetown University Press (2003, 2006) and Continuum Press (2008) as well as several articles in peer-refereed journals. He is also the producer of the documentary film ""EUROoeThe Choosers""EURO (2006) on two-way bilingual education." Tab Content 6Author Website: http://webspace.utexas.edu/mrs2429/wwwCountries AvailableAll regions |
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