Spanish in Chicago

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Kim Potowski (Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago) Lourdes Torres (Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University)

Spanish in Chicago

Kim Potowski (Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago), Lourdes Torres (Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
19 May 2023

Sociolinguistics; Dialect, slang & jargon

Series: OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES

Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population.

Identifying Chicago as a rich site for examining language and dialect contact at both community and family levels, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres describe the spoken Spanish of Chicago, analyzing patterns of language change and identity constructions and establishing their likely causes.

Drawing on interviews with 124 individuals across three generations of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Chicagoans, Potowski and Torres trace the effects of language and dialect contact through close sociolinguistic analysis of lexicon, discourse markers, codeswitching, the subjunctive, and phonology. Their analysis uniquely examines these features across three generations of speakers and two different regional origins within the same corpus. By including MexiRicans as a category, the book not only assesses the dynamics of linguistic convergence, dialect leveling, accommodation, and language loss, but also the concept of intrafamiliar dialect contact pioneered by Potowski. Contextualizing these language changes within the history of Latino communities in Chicago, Spanish in Chicago provides a nuanced picture of a minority language in a major US city and a vital contribution to sociolinguistics and Latino studies.

By: Kim Potowski (Professor of Spanish Linguistics Professor of Spanish Linguistics University of Illinois at Chicago), Lourdes Torres (Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 157mm, Width: 226mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780199326150
ISBN 10: 0199326150
Series: OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 19 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Kim Potowski is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States, including factors that influence language maintenance and connections between language, education, and identity. She is the founder of the Language in Context Research Group and author or editor of several books, including The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language and Language Diversity in the USA. Her advocacy for the value of dual language education in promoting bilingualism and biliteracy was the focus of her TEDx talk ""No Child Left Monolingual."" Lourdes Torres is Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. She is the editor of the journal Latino Studies and the series co-editor of the Global Latin/o American Series of the University of Ohio Press. Her research and teaching interests include sociolinguistics, Spanish in the US, and Queer Latinidades. She is the author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism and Tortilleras: Hispanic and the Latina Lesbian Expression."

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Spanish in Chicago

Kim Potowski (Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago), Lourdes Torres (Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University)

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