Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World : Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives EPUB
by Jennifer Austin, Maria Blume, Liliana Sanchez
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Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries.
In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local government.
This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools, code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena affect the linguistic and cognitive development of the speaker.
Using examples and case studies drawn primarily from Spanish/English bilinguals in the US, Spanish/Quechua bilinguals in Peru and Spanish/Basque bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse perspectives on the experience of being bilingual in distinct cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:20/04/2015
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- ISBN:9781316287088