Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York - Softcover

Zentella, Ana Celia

 
9781557864079: Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1557864071 ISBN 13: 9781557864079
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1997

Synopsis

Winner of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award 1999

Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 1998

This book provides an inside view of the social construction of bilingualism in one of the largest and most disadvantaged Spanish-speaking groups in the United States.

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About the Author

Ana Celia Zentella, an anthro-political linguist, is Professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, and in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Developmental Psychology at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

From the Back Cover

This book provides an inside view of the social construction of bilingualism in one of the largest and most disadvantaged Spanish-speaking groups in the United States. It walks readers through a New York Puerto Rican Community and describes the five varieties of Spanish and English that constitute the community's bilingual and multi-dialectal repertoire, the four major communication patterns that predominate in the homes of twenty families with children, and the syntactic features and discourse strategies of so-called "Spanglish".

From the Inside Flap

This book provides an inside view of the social construction of bilingualism in one of the largest and most disadvantaged Spanish-speaking groups in the United States. It walks readers through a New York Puerto Rican Community and describes the five varieties of Spanish and English that constitute the community's bilingual and multi-dialectal repertoire, the four major communication patterns that predominate in the homes of twenty families with children, and the syntactic features and discourse strategies of so-called "Spanglish".

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1557864071
ISBN 13 
9781557864079
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
336

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