It presents a painstakingly rigorous and ultimately fascinating account of the effects of contact with English on New York City Spanish. Equally importantly, it addresses the effects of contact with other varieties of Spanish.
Kim Potowski, Journal of Sociolinguistics
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, as well as the extent to which Spanish has evolved in New York City. Their study, which focuses on language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural continuity, carefully distinguishes between the influence of English and the mutual influences of forms of Spanish with roots in different parts of Latin America.
Taking variationist sociolinguistics as its guiding paradigm, the book compares the Spanish of New Yorkers born in Latin America with that of those born in New York City. Findings are grounded in a comparative analysis of 140 sociolinguistic interviews of speakers with origins in Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Quantitative analysis (correlations, anovas, variable hierarchies, constraint hierarchies) reveals the effect on the use of subject personal pronouns of the speaker's gender, immigrant generation, years spent in New York, and amount of exposure to English and to varieties of Spanish. In addition to these speaker factors, structural and communicative variables, including the person and tense of the verb and its referential status, have a significant impact on pronominal usage in New York City.
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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.
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Preface ; 1. Continuity, language contact, and dialectical leveling in Spanish in NYC ; 2. Interviews and transcripts ; 3. The envelope of variation and the formation of the corpus ; 4. The pronoun rate: Delineating New York Latino communities ; 5. Language contact: Generation, exposure, and English ability groups ; 6. Dialectal leveling in Spanish in New York ; 7. A multivariate approach to continuity, contact, and leveling ; 8. Internal evidence for continuity and contact ; 9. Internal evidence for continuity and leveling ; 10. The grammar of bilinguals in New York ; Bibliography ; Appendix 1 - Questionnaire ; Appendix 2 - Coding Manual
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Selling point: Concentrates on New York City, where Spanish is spoken by over two million Latinos who have roots in more than a dozen Latin American nations
Selling point: Focuses on the rates, distributional patterns, and conditioning factors of Spanish pronouns to shed light on the realignments and transformations that are taking place among Spanish speakers
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Ricardo Otheguy is Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Ana Celia Zentella is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego.
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Selling point: Concentrates on New York City, where Spanish is spoken by over two million Latinos who have roots in more than a dozen Latin American nations
Selling point: Focuses on the rates, distributional patterns, and conditioning factors of Spanish pronouns to shed light on the realignments and transformations that are taking place among Spanish speakers
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780199737390
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
449 gr
Høyde
156 mm
Bredde
234 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320