| Description |
1 online resource (363 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Postscript -- Note -- References -- 1 Arabic in Greater Los Angeles: Many Varieties, One Community -- Who Are Arab Americans and What Is Arabic Diglossia? -- Methodology -- Past and Present of the Arabic-Speaking L.A. Community -- Demographics: Numbers and the Communities They Represent -- The Levant Dialects -- The Egyptian Dialect -- The Iraqi Dialect -- Little Arabia: A Business Context -- Religious Contexts -- Educational Contexts -- The Survey -- Conclusion |
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Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- 2 Armenian in Greater Los Angeles: Negotiating Intralinguistic Diversity in a Diaspora Epicenter -- Underlying Historical Factors -- Armenians in GLA -- Capacity Development -- PreK-12 Educational Contexts -- Post-Secondary Education -- Non-instructional Contexts: Opportunity Creation -- Community Institutions -- Religious Organizations -- Entertainment and the Media -- Business Settings -- Motivation: The Desire to Learn the Language -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Chinese: Multiple Varieties in a Changing Greater Los Angeles |
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Chinese Settlement in the L.A. Area: 1850 to the Present Day -- Shifting Location: From Chinatown to the San Gabriel Valley and Beyond -- Chinese Language Use: Past and Present -- Los Angeles' Chinese Linguistic Landscape -- Opportunity Creation: Contexts of Chinese Use -- Capacity Development: Maintaining Chinese Over the Generations -- Within the Family -- Educational Contexts: Chinese Community Schools and Mandarin Programs in Mainstream Schools -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Filipino: Language Practices and Affective Connections in Greater Los Angeles -- Filipino By the Numbers |
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A Brief Historical Background -- Methodology -- Capacity Development in the Home and Educational Settings -- In the Home -- Educational Settings -- Opportunity: Historic Filipinotown and Beyond -- Desire: Motivations to Maintain Filipino/OPLs -- Language Practices With Children -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 French in Greater Los Angeles: Challenges and Opportunities -- The French Language and Francophone Figures in Early Los Angeles -- Current Contexts of French Language Use: Opportunity Creation in the Community -- Friends and Family |
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French Language Education in GLA: Capacity Development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 German: The Invisible Language Minority: The Historical, Political, and Linguistic Dimensions... -- One Language Under God: The Politics of Language Loyalty -- Immigration Numbers: A Lens On the German Language Landscape in California -- Of Language Islands (Sprachinseln), Micro-Speech Communities, and Cyberspace: Opportunity -- German Language Oases in the Desert: Availability of Formal Educational Capacity -- Survey: A Window Into German Language Use By Heritage Speakers in GLA |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Language Identity: Desire to Maintain German Language Skills |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429016882 |
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0429016883 |
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