Spanish of the U.S. Southwest :$bA Language in Transition /$cSusana Rivera-Mills, Daniel Villa (eds.)

An edited volume divided into five sections: historical linguistics, loss and maintenance, descriptive linguistics, work on language attitudes and identities, and finally language politics and pedagogical issues. Contents Introduction Spanish Of The U.S. Southwest: A Language In Transition Section I. Historical Aspects Of Southwest Spanish Introduction. Documenting The Past. Envisioning The Future: The Historical Sociolinguistics Of Spanish In The U.S. Southwest Varieties Of Spanish In Post-Annexation California (1 848-1900) From Voice To Print: Language And Social Change In New Mexico. 1880-1912 A Historical Perspective On Contemporary New Mexico Spanish Archaisms Section II. Loss And Maintenance Of Southwest Spanish Introduction. Whither Southwest Spanish? Issues In The Assessment Of Maintenance Or Loss Gender And Spanish-Language Maintenance Among U.S.-Born Hispanic Children In The Southwest: Evidence From The 200 1-2006 American Community Surveys Spanish-As-Threat Ideology And The Sociocultural Context Of Spanish In South Texas State(S) Of Spanish In The Southwest: A Comparative Study Of Language Maintenance And Socioeconomic Variables Acculturation And Communicative Need In The Process Of Language Shift: The Case Of An Arizona Community Section III. Descriptive Studies Of Southwest Spanish Introduction. Description And Beyond: The Southwest At The Center Variable Yo Expression In New Mexico: English Influence? Passive Expressions As Isogloss Between New Mexican And Californian Spanish Dialect Areas An Analysis Of The Motivations For Borrowing In The Spanish Of New Mexico Ynos Vamos Patras: Back To An Analysis Of A Supposed 'Calque' Section IV. Language Attitudes And Identity Issues Introduction. Ethnicity And Language: Identity Issues In The U.S. Southwest 'I'm Not Mexican... Pero Soy Mexicano': Linguistic Context Of Labeling Among Mexican Americans In Texas" Todavía Decimos 'Nosotros [Los] Mexicanos': Construction Of Identity Labels Among Nue Vo Mexicanos Attitudes Toward Spanish Language Variation Among Latinas Living In Western Colorado Section V. Language Politics And Issues In Spanish Heritage Speaker Pedagogy Introduction. The Sociopolitics Of Heritage Language Education Arch. Responsibility And Repression: Anti-Bilingualism In Arizona Different Words For Different Contexts Intra-Speaker Variation In Spanish As A Heritage Language* Reducing Spanish On The Margins Of Empire: A Historical Perspective On Ideologies And Ecologies Of Language Education In Sonoma County. California Authors Spanish in the Southwest of the United States predates the appearance of English in this country. The language has had an uninterrupted presence in the Río Grande corridor since 1598, and has spread geographically and demographically over the last four centuries. Despite that growth, it is being lost among younger generations that trend toward English monolingualism; thus, Spanish exists in a tremendous state of flux in the U.S. Southwest. The present volume?s principal goal is to provide a window into this dynamic through a collection of essays focused on linguistic and sociolinguistic topics on Southwest Spanish.It includes studies of its history, its maintenance and the shift to English, descriptive studies of current varieties of the language, issues in attitudes and identities of its speakers, and language politics and policies in Spanish Heritage Speaker pedagogy. In doing so, this book seeks to capture a historic moment in the constantly unfolding linguistic and political realities that both encourage and threaten the existence of Southwest Spanish.