Title Recovering the U.S. Hispanic linguistic heritage : sociohistorical approaches to Spanish in the United States / edited by Alejandra Balestra, Glenn Martínez and María Irene Moyna

Published Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : illustrations Series Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication. Contents Sociohistorical Approaches to Spanish in the United States -- Contents -- Part I -- Introduction -- Historical background -- Language Policies -- Methodology -- Language Maintenance and Language Shift -- Organization of the Volume -- Part II -- Formas de tratamiento en correspondencia en español:California y Nuevo México, 1800-1900 -- Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche: una mujer en la Inquisición en Nuevo México, una voz en la historia del español del Sudoeste de los Estados Unidos -- Espinosa's Diary Chronicling the 1716 Ramón Expedition into Texas: Notes on the Translations -- La expresión de la pasividad en California en el siglo XIX -- Language Wars on the Texas Frontier -- How the Californio Girls (and Boys) Lost Their Accents -- Dialect Death:The Case of Adaeseño Spanish in Northwest Louisiana -- Contributors Summary In this fascinating exploration of the development of the Spanish language from a sociohistorical perspective in the territory that has become the United States, linguists and editors Balestra, Martínez, and Moyna draw attention to the long tradition of multilingualism in the United States in the hope of putting to rest the myth that the U.S. was ever a monolingual nation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Essays in English and Spanish Subject Hispanic Americans -- Languages Spanish language -- Social aspects -- United States Spanish language -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History Spanish language -- United States -- History FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Spanish. Spanish language Spanish language -- Social aspects Spanish language -- Study and teaching United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Balestra, Alejandra Martínez, Glenn A., 1971- Moyna, María Irene LC no. 2008016605 ISBN 9781611922684 1611922682 9781611926705 161192670X

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