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Author:   Talia Bugel ,  Kim Potowski
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781433127663

ISBN 10:   1433127660
Pages:   223
Publication Date:   31 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: María del Puy Ciriza: Family transmission and social networks: Insights on a Basque Spanish case – Susana de los Heros/Margarita Jara: Exploring the functions of ‘ASÍ’ in Peruvian Spanish – Claudia Holguín Mendoza: Pragmatic functions and cultural communicative needs in the use of innovative quotatives among Mexican bilingual youth – Liliana Sánchez: Convergence in feature mapping: Evidentiality, aspect and nominalizations in Quechua-Spanish bilinguals – Justin Davidson: Intervocalic fricative voicing in the Spanish of Barcelona: Considerations for contact-induced sociophonetic innovation – Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza: Son importantes los dos: Language use and attitudes among wives of Mexican profesionistas on the U.S.-Mexico border – Isabel Velázquez: Intergenerational perceptions of Spanish use and viability in first-generation midwestern Latino households – Zsuzsanna Fagyal: Sociolinguistic variation and pluricentricity: Postface to Case Studies in Honor of Anna María Escobar.

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Kim Potowski (PhD in Hispanic linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States, including books about language use in a dual immersion school and teaching heritage speakers. Her current work explores features of Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish in Chicago, as well as mixed Latino «MexiRican» language and identity. With a Fulbright grant, she worked in Oaxaca, Mexico, studying the features of English and Spanish and the schooling experiences of «transnational» youth who have returned to Mexico from the United States. Talia Bugel (PhD in Hispanic linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Her research focuses on language attitudes and language policy in the context of teaching Spanish and Portuguese as foreign languages in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Her work has been published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Language Policy, Latin American Research Review, Hispania, and Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana.

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