1st Edition
Emerging Hispanicized English in the Nuevo New South Language Variation in a Triethnic Community
By Erin Callahan
Copyright 2018
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
150 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary language shift and identity in a language community in the mid-Atlantic South to offer a unique window into ethnic dialect formation and sociolinguistic processes underpinning dialect acquisition. Drawing on data collected from over 100 interviews of members North Carolina Hispanicized English speakers in Durham, North Carolina, the... Read more
1. Introduction: The Language of Marcos
2. Why Study Emerging Ethnolects? 21st Century Implications for Variationism and Second Language Acquistiion (SLA)
3. The Speech Community: Ethnolect Formation, Development, and Contexts of Use
4. A Quantitative Portrait of Ethnolectal Emergence
5. Pedagogical Perspectives: Ethnolects Go to School
Biography
Erin Callahan is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Western Carolina University, USA.
