IntraLatino language and identity : MexiRican Spanish / Kim Potowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potowski, Kim, author.

Series:

Impact, studies in language and society ; Volume 43.

IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society, 1385-7908 ; Volume 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Variation--United States.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Dialects--Mexico.

Spanish language--Dialects--Puerto Rico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [The Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The increasing diversity of the U.S. Latino population has given rise to a growing population of “mixed” Latinos. This is a study of such individuals raised in Chicago, Illinois who have one Mexican parent and one Puerto Rican parent, most of whom call themselves “MexiRicans.” Given that these two varieties of Spanish exhibit highly salient differences, these speakers can be said to experience intrafamilial dialect contact. The book first explores the lexicon, discourse marker use, and phonological features among two generations of over 70 MexiRican speakers, finding several connections to parental dialect, neighborhood demographics, and family dynamics. Drawing from critical mixed race theory, it then examines MexiRicans’ narratives about their ethnic identity, including the role of Spanish features in the ways in which they are accepted or challenged by monoethnic, monodialectal Mexicans and Puerto Ricans both in Chicago and abroad. These findings contribute to our understandings of dialect contact, U.S. Spanish, and the role of language in ethnic identity.

Contents:

Intro

IntraLatino Language and Identity

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Theoretical background

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Dialect contact

1.2.1 Connections between language acquisition and dialect acquisition

1.2.2 Role of the mother in linguistic transmission

1.2.3 Potential clustering of dialect features

1.2.4 Changes across generations

1.3 Language and ethnic identity

1.3.1 Mixed race studies

1.4 Conclusions and organization of the book

Spanish-speaking Chicago

2.1 Spanish-speaking Chicago

2.2 Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago: Fading animosities

2.3 Corpus and methodology

2.3.1 Generational categories

2.3.2 Parent dialect groups

2.3.3 Age

2.3.4 Gender

2.3.5 Spanish proficiency

2.3.6 Socioeconomic status

2.4 Methodology

2.5 Conclusions

Appendices

Appendix A. Complete list of participants, by study, generation, and age (n = 71)

Appendix B. Interview questions

Appendix C. Examples of oral speech at each proficiency level (1 = lowest, 5 = highest)

Lexicon

3.1 The lexicon in cases of linguistic contact

3.2 Methodology

3.3 Results

3.3.1 Overall lexical familiarity

3.3.2 Generation

3.3.3 Comparison with Chicago Mexicans and Puerto Ricans

3.3.4 Mother's ethnolinguistic group

3.3.5 Individual lexical items

3.3.6 First word offered

3.4 Conclusions

Appendix A. Lexical scores

Discourse markers

4.1 Discourse markers in cases of linguistic contact

4.1.1 Discourse markers in Spanish

4.2 Methodology

4.3 Findings

4.3.1 Overall frequency and functional distribution of discourse markers

4.3.2 Generation

4.3.3 Mother's ethnolinguistic group

4.3.4 Individuals' uses of discourse markers

4.4 Comparisons with Mexicans and with Puerto Ricans

4.5 Conclusions

Phonology.

5.1 Phonological outcomes of dialect contact

5.2 Mexican and Puerto Rican phonology

5.2.1 Coda /s/

5.2.2 /r̄/

5.2.3 Other variables: coda /r/ and word final /n/

5.3 Ratings

5.3.1 Methodology, ratings

5.3.2 Findings

5.3.3 Homeland vs. Chicago ratings

5.4 Segmental analysis

5.4.1 Segmental analysis of /s/

5.4.2 Segmental analysis of /r̄/

5.4.3 Comparison with Chicago Mexicans and Puerto Ricans

5.4.4 Tandem /s/ and /r̄/ behavior

5.5 Conclusions

Appendix A. Speakers with segmental analyses (n = 45): Ratings

Appendix B. Speakers without segmental analyses (n = 17): Ratings

Connections between linguistic domains

6.1 Lexicon

6.1.1 Individuals dominant in Mexican lexicon

6.1.2 Individuals dominant in Puerto Rican lexicon

6.1.3 Individuals balanced in Mexican and Puerto Rican lexicon

6.2 Discourse markers

6.3 Phonology

6.3.1 Individuals dominant in Mexican phonology

6.3.2 Individuals balanced in Mexican and Puerto Rican phonology

6.3.3 Individuals dominant in Puerto Rican phonology

6.4 Individual profiles

6.4.1 Nancy (G3:2)

6.4.2 Leticia (G3:2)

6.4.3 Juliana (G2)

6.4.4 Ivan (G2)

6.4.5 Yolanda (G2)

6.4.6 Elsa (G3:2)

6.5 Conclusions

Ethnic identity discourses

7.1 Connections between language and ethnic identity

7.2 Critical mixed race theory

7.3 "Por eso mis papás no están juntos": MexiRican discourses about Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and how the two groups get along

7.4 Indexing ethnicity though food, flags, and labels

7.4.1 "'Man, tu mamá está loca, she cooks Mexican and Puerto Rican": Food as cultural practice

7.4.2 "Pongo las dos banderas, o no lo compro": Flags

7.4.3 Indexing ethnic identity through self-labeling

7.5 Ethnic identity claims and challenges

7.5.1 "I'm like 50-50, you know": Dual ethnicity claims.

7.5.2 "You don't look Mexican, you don't sound Mexican": Challenges and attempts at erasure

7.5.3 Shifting dialect features

7.6 Conclusions

Conclusions

8.1 MexiRicans' Spanish

8.1.1 Lexical familiarity, discourse marker use, and phonological features

8.1.2 Comparisons with Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago

8.1.3 Generational changes

8.1.4 Other influences on MexiRicans' Spanish

8.1.5 Clustering of linguistic features

8.1.6 Intrafamilial dialect contact and bidialectalism

8.2 MexiRican ethnic identity and Latinidad

8.3 Areas for future research

8.4 Anthropolitical linguistics

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

965120621