Multilingual La La Land
Language Use in Sixteen Greater Los Angeles Communities
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Multilingual La La Land: Language Use in Sixteen Greater Los Angeles Communities
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Home to immigrants from more than 140 countries speaking over 200 languages, Los Angeles is a microcosm of the world. While Los Angeles' ethnic enclaves have been the subject of study by researchers from a wide range of fields, these enclaves remain under-researched from a linguistic standpoint. Multilingual La La Land addresses the sociolinguistic landscape of the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, providing in-depth accounts of the twelve most spoken languages in the region.
Each chapter introduces the history of the language in the LA region, uses census figures and residential patterns to examine location-based and network-based speech communities, and discusses the patterns of usage that characterize the language, and motivations to maintain the language. For each language, this book considers how these patterns and trends bear on the vitality of a language in the region.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Arabic in Greater Los Angeles: Many Varieties, One Community
By Afaf Nash
Armenian in Greater Los Angeles: Negotiating Intralinguistic Diversity in a Diaspora Epicenter
By Shushan Karapetian and Hagop Gulludjian
Chinese: Multiple Varieties in a Changing Greater Los Angeles
By Ming-Hsuan Wu, Claire Hitchins Chik and Andrew Simpson
Filipino: Language Practices and Affective Connections in Greater Los Angeles
By Nenita Pambid Domingo, Claire Hitchins Chik and Maria Carreira
French: Challenges and Opportunities in Greater Los Angeles
By Mina Soroosh, Claire Hitchins Chik and Fabrice Jaumont
German: The Invisible Language Minority
By Britta Bothe
Hebrew and Yiddish in Greater Los Angeles: Bilingualism, Metalinguistic Communities, and Ethnolinguistic Infusion
By Sarah Bunin Benor and Netta Avineri
Japanese: Language Practices and Cultural Exposure over Multiple Generations in Greater Los Angeles
By Mary Ann Triest, Asako Hayashi Takakura and Claire Hitchins Chik
Khmer Language Use and Presence in the Linguistic Landscape of Greater Los Angeles’ Cambodia Town
By Wayne E. Wright and Virak Chan
Korean in Greater Los Angeles: Negotiation between the Individual and Ethnolinguistic Community Across Generations
By Hannah Saeyoung Lim
Languages of India
Persian Language Use and Vitality in Tehrangeles
By Amy Malek
Russian in Greater Los Angeles: A Changing Landscape
By Susan Kresin, Dante Matero and Susan Bauckus
Los Angeles: Where Spanish was never a Foreign Language
By Maria Carreira
Thai as a Diasporic Language in Greater Los Angeles
By Shoichi Iwasaki and Jenjit Gasigitamrong
Vietnamese: Language Use in Little Saigon and Other Greater Los Angeles Neighborhoods
By Natalie A. Tran, Bang Lang Do and Claire Hitchins Chik
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Biography
Claire Hitchins Chik is an Associate Director of the Title VI National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA.