Spain & Latin
American:
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U. of Arizona Press, 1999-2001
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I
Am My Language
Discourses of Women and Children in the Borderlands
Norma González.
240 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2001
In Press.Cloth (0-8165-1893-9) $35.00s
"This fine work is the very first linguistic anthropological analysis
that has enabled all of us to peek into the manner in which language is
literally created within the ecology of the borderlands of the Southwest U.S. .
. . Dr. Gonzalez clearly articulates what so many of us have tried to capture
but much less successfully: the very process of the creation of meaning,
emotion, and relationships within the maze of institutions, polity, and economy
of the Southwest."
—Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, University of California, Riverside
“I am my language,” says the poet Gloria Anzaldúa, because
language is at the heart of who we are. But what happens when a person has more
than one language? Is there an overlay of language on identity, and do we shift
identities as we shift languages? More important, what identities do children
construct for themselves when they use different languages in particular ways?
In this book, Norma González uses language as a window on the multiple
levels of identity construction in children—as well as on the complexities of
life in the borderlands—to explore language practices and discourse patterns
of Mexican-origin mothers and the language socialization of their children. She
shows how the unique discourses that result from the interplay of two cultures
shape perceptions of self and community, and how they influence the ways in
which children learn and families engage with their children’s schools.
Speaking
Mexicano
The Dynamics of Syncretic Language in Central Mexico
Jane H. Hill and Kenneth C. Hill.
493 pp. / 6 x 9 / 1986
Cloth (0-8165-0898-4) $56.00s
"An excellent book which should be read by anyone interested in the
study of language in society."--Man
"Contains many insights about pressures that motivate linguistic
behavior and perception in a bilingual community. . . . The community of people
interested in language and its relationships with culture will not doubt the
worth of the endeavor."--American Anthropologist
American
Indian Languages
Cultural and Social Contexts
Shirley Silver and Wick R. Miller.
433 pp. / 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 / 1997
Paper (0-8165-2139-5) $26.95s
Cloth (0-8165-1802-5) $60.00s
"There is no better introduction to American Indian languages than this
volume. Highly readable and accessible to a general audience, it is a fine read
for anyone interested in the subject." --Native California
"[There are] no less than 160 languages or language families of North
and South America on which substantive information is given, from Inuit to
Araucanian and from Eyak to Creek. Along with topics long familiar to
specialists--such as Sapir's discussion of the northern origin of the Navajo,
and Haas's work on Koasati genderlects--there is much fresh material from
Silver's and Miller's own field research." --Language in Society
This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World
introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian
languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties.
Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these
languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the
linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing
those located in the western United States and Mexico, while drawing on a wide
range of other examples found from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to
such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems,
storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains
sign language.
The authors have included basics of grammar and historical linguistics, while
emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and
the relation between language and worldview. They have incorporated a variety of
data that have rarely or never received attention in nontechnical literature in
order to underscore the linguistic diversity of the Americas, and have provided
more extensive language classification lists than are found in most other texts.
Speaking
Chicana
Voice, Power, and Identity
D. Letticia Galindo and María Dolores Gonzales, eds.
230 pp. / 15 photos / 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 / 1999
Paper (0-8165-1815-7) $19.95s
Cloth (0-8165-1814-9) $45.00s
Previous studies in the fields of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and
gender studies have focused upon Chicano linguistic communities as a monolith or
have focused entirely upon male-centered aspects of language use, leaving a
tremendous gap in works about Chicanas, for Chicanas, and by
Chicanas as they pertain to language-related issues. Speaking Chicana
bridges that gap, offering for the first time an extensive examination of
language issues among Chicanas.
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