Spanish in New York : language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity / Ricardo Otheguy and Ana Celia Zentella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Otheguy, Ricardo, 1945-

Contributor:

Zentella, Ana Celia.

Series:

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Provincialisms--New York (State)--New York.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Pronoun.

Spanish language--Dialects--New York (State)--New York.

Bilingualism--New York (State)--New York.

Bilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural variation as it is found in Latin America.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Continuity, Language Contact, and Dialectal Leveling in Spanish in New York; 1. Introduction; 2. Variable Subject Pronoun Use; 2.1 An Initial Illustration; 2.2 A Note on Conceptualization and Accompanying Terminology; 3.Language Contact and Dialectal Leveling in Spanish in New York; 3.1 Language Contact; 3.2 Dialectal Leveling; 3.3 Variation and Explanation in Performance Grammar; 4. The Sample and the Corpus; 5. Summary and Conclusions; 2. Interviews and Transcripts; 1. Introduction; 2. Stratification of the Sample ; 2.1 Gender

2.2 Age2.3 National and Regional Origin; 2.4 Generational Cohorts; 2.5 Age of Arrival in New York; 2.6 Years Lived in NYC; 2.7 Immigrant Newcomers, Established Immigrants, and the NYR; 2.8 Social Class; 2.9 Educational Attainment; 2.10 English Skills; 2.11 Level of Use of Spanish; 3.Cross-Stratification of the Sample; 3.1 Region and Gender; 3.2 Region and Generation; 3.3 Region and Age of Arrival; 3.4 Region and Years in NYC; 3.5 Region and Exposure; 4. The Interviews and the Transcripts; 4.1 General Characteristics of the Transcripts; 4.2 Amount of Talk by Consultants

4.3 Transcription Using Conventional Orthography4.4 Accepting and Rejecting Interviews; 4.5 Labeling Interviews and Transcripts; 5. Summary and Conclusions; 3. The Envelope of Variation and the Formation of the Corpus; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Categorical and Variable Contexts; 1.2 The Principle of Accountability and the Nature of Variable Data; 2. Requirements for Bare Verbs to be Included in the Corpus; 2.1 An Available Subject Slot; 2.2 An Ascertainable Denotational Subject; 2.3 Denoting an Animate Entity; 3. Requirements for Pronouns to be Included in the Corpus; 3.1 Exclude False Starts

3.2 Exclude Left Dislocations3.3 Exclude Logophoric X-Forms; 3.4 Two Statistical Inconsistencies; 4. Decisions Regarding Incorporation Based on Types of Contexts, Not on Individual Occurrences; 5. A Fully Contextualized Illustration of Decisions Regarding the Corpus; 6. Summary and Conclusions; 4. The Pronoun Rate: Delineating New York Latino Communities; 1. Introduction; 2. Similarities and Differences in the Use of Pronouns by Basic Demographic Groups; 2.1 Gender, Age, Education, and Social Class; 2.2 Socioeconomic Status (SES); 3.National and Regional Origins

4. Regional Differences and the Pronoun Rate in the Basic Demographic Groups5. The Group and the Individual; 6. The Corpus, the City, and the Nature of Statistical Inference; 7. Summary and Conclusions; 5. Language Contact in Spanish in New York; 1. Introduction; 2. Lect, Generation, Exposure; 2.1 Lect: The Reference Lects and the Bilingual Lects; 2.2 Generation: The Latin American Raised and the New York Raised; 2.3 Exposure: Immigrant Newcomers, Established Immigrants, and the NYR; 3. English Proficiency Groups; 3.1 Rating English Proficiency as Excellent versus Less Than Excellent

3.2 Language Choice with Interlocutors and the English Proficiency Groups

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 21, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045376-1

0-19-973739-8

0-19-987625-8

9786613423320

1-283-42332-4

OCLC:

922971037