Ana Cella Zentella, Zentella

Broschiertes Buch

Growing Up Bilingual

Beschreibung

This book provides an inside view of the social construction of bilingualism in one of the largest and most disadvantaged Spanish-speaking groups in the United States. It walks readers through a New York Puerto Rican Community and describes the five varieties of Spanish and English that constitute the community's bilingual and multi-dialectal repertoire, the four major communication patterns that predominate in the homes of twenty families with children, and the syntactic features and discourse strategies of so-called "Spanglish".

Autor

Ana Celia Zentella, an anthro-political linguist, is Professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, and in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Developmental Psychology at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781557864079
• ISBN-10: 1557864071
• Artikelnr.: 22079411

Rezensionen

"Growing up Bilingual is a profoundly compelling account ofwhat it means to come of age in an economically impoverished butlinguistically rich cultural environment.Without romanticising anoften grim situation, Zentella tells a story that has long neededto be told. It should be read by every teacher and social workerwho deals with Puerto Rican children. It should also occupy aprominent spot on the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested inlanguage policy, ethnolinguistics, applied linguistics, bilingualeducation, ethnic identity or Hispanic studies." Alicia Pousada,University of Puerto Rico

"Along with her splendid sense of the need to portray memory andhistory, she brings wit, grace, and intelligence to her intimateand detailed portrayals of the life and language of Puerto Ricanchildren and their families in New York." Shirley Brice Heath,Stanford University

* * Winner of the Association of Latina and Latino AnthropologistsBook Award 1999
* * Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics BookPrize 1998

"Zentella's book achieves its goal of describing the social andlinguistic realities of New York Perto Ricans.........those whoadvocate for an English-only society and the elimination ofbilingual education, as well as their foes, should read this workand consider the significance of language for those who are subjectto domination by a different culture."Yolanda Rivera-Castillo,University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa