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Title Spanish Language Use and Public Life in the United States / Elizabeth A. Leone, John R. Gutiérrez, Lucía Elías-Olivares, René Cisneros
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
©1985

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages)
Series Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 35
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1: On Describing Spanish- Speaking Communities -- Spanish in the Southwest: Language Maintenance or Shift? -- Hispanic Attitudes in Northwest Indiana and New York -- Language Maintenance Among New York Puerto Ricans -- Pan-Hispanism and Subcommunity in Washington D.C. -- Children's Storytelling Strategies -- In the Match between Spanish Dialects, Who is the Referee? -- Section 2: Using Spanish in Public Life -- Spanish Language Planning in the United States -- Language as a Barrier to Health Care -- Testing Bilingual Language Proficiency: An Applied Approach -- The Court Interpreters Certification Test Design -- Bilingual Education and Language Shift -- Spanish in United States Broadcasting -- Editors Epilogue
Subject Spanish language -- Social aspects -- United States
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Spanish.
Spanish language -- Social aspects
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Cisneros, René
Elías-Olivares, Lucía
Gutiérrez, John R
Leone, Elizabeth A
ISBN 9783110852530
3110852535