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Book SynopsisThis edited volume adopts a new angle on the study of Spanish in the United States, one that transcends the use of Spanish as an ethnic language and explores it as a language spreading across new domains: education, public spaces, and social media. It aims to position Spanish in the United States in the wider frame of global multilingualism and in line with new perspectives of analysis such as superdiversity, translanguaging, indexicality, and multimodality. All the 15 chapters analyze Spanish use as an instance of social change in the sense that monolingual cultural reproduction changes and produces cultural transformation. Furthermore, these chapters represent five macro-regions of the United States: the Southwest, the West, the Midwest, the Northeast, and the Southeast.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: Spanish in the United States and across Domains Edwin M. Lamboy and Francisco Salgado-Robles Part 1 Spanish in the Education Domain 1 Spanish Heritage Education in the Southwestern United States: Fighting Restrictive Policies toward Language Maintenance in Arizona Sara M. Beaudrie and Sergio Loza 2 Spanish as a Heritage Language in the Western United States: Are We Meeting the Demands in Colorado? Devin L. Jenkins 3 Spanish in the Midwest: Hablando in the Heartland Kim Potowski 4 Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language in Northeastern United States: Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia Manel Lacorte, Elisa Gironzetti and Evelyn Canabal-Torres 5 Spanish Heritage Language Learners in Tennessee: Current Practices, Challenges, and Directions for the Future Inmaculada Gómez Soler Part 2 Spanish in the Public Space Domain 6 Heritage Speakers of Spanish in Oklahoma City: An Examination of the Linguistic Landscape Aaron B. Roggia 7 Hablamos español in the Western United States: A View of Marketing in the Multilingual Landscape of California María Cecilia Colombi, Daniela Cerbino and Marta Llorente Bravo 8 Constructing La Villa Hispana: Cultural Citizenship, Economic Development, and Linguistic Landscaping in Ohio Elena Foulis and Glenn Martinez 9 Avenida San Juan: The Linguistic Landscape of Buffalo, New York’s Hispanic Heritage District Amanda Dixson and Angela George 10 Humanizing Approaches to Emergent Bilingual Learners en confianza: Cultivating a Community Linguistic Landscape at a Bilingual Library in the Hispanic Kentucky Bluegrass Steven Alvarez Part 3 Spanish in the Social Media Domain 11 Presencia Virtual: Spanish as a Heritage Language Speakers’ Use of Instagram to Forward Notions of Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza and Gabriela Moreno 12 “Cuando me da la gana. Me AF”: Washingtonian Bilingual Speakers of Spanish on Facebook Víctor Fernández-Mallat 13 Communicative Purposes behind Language Choice and “Netspeak”: Use of Facebook by Heritage Speakers of Spanish in the American Midwest Laura Valentín-Rivera and Earl K. Brown 14 “Dope!! Puta vergona”: Identity “en el middle” and Language Choice in Instagram among Urban Music Affiliated Male Spanish Legacy Speakers from Da DMV José L. Magro 15 Understanding Language Attitudes among Members of a New Latino Community in the Southeastern United States: From Speech to Tweets Chad Howe and Philip P. Limerick Epilogue: U.S. Spanish as a Sociolinguistic Conundrum Francisco Moreno-Fernández Index
