Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages.Mercedes Nino-Marcia and Jason Rothman (eds) (2008)
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: For any researcher, student or teacher working on language and identity in general, and on bilingualism and identity specifically this book is a mustread.Using the most up-to-date methods in collecting data, the writers have presented an unprecedented piece of work on the complex and often misunderstood relationship between language and identity.More precisely the book aims to shed light on how language choice in bilinguals reflects an aspect of their identity, and to analyse the reasons behind the choices made by the speaker.This volume is unique in that it concentrates on one language, Spanish.This is unique: no other volume to date has presented such comprehensive findings on one language in different contact situations.It allows the authors to examine the effects of multilingualism/bilingualism whilst the language is kept constant, and it can of course be used as a model for other languages.The first major advantage of this approach is that one language is presented in a variety of socio-geographic situations (dominant, not dominant, minority) and the reader is therefore able to appreciate variation in the link between identity and language.There is the presentation of Spanish in the Basque country (Azurmendi, Larranga and Affiliation
Source: Sociolinguistic Studies
Author: Fatma Faisal S Said
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1978940145