{"product_id":"spanish-in-chicago-paperback","title":"Spanish in Chicago - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKim Potowski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLourdes Torres\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpanish in Chicago\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing 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, \u003cem\u003eSpanish in Chicago \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a nuanced picture of a minority language in a major US city and a vital contribution to sociolinguistics and Latino studies.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKim Potowski \u003c\/strong\u003eis 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLanguage Diversity in the USA\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLourdes Torres\u003c\/strong\u003e is Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. She is the editor of the journal \u003cem\u003eLatino Studies \u003c\/em\u003eand 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 \u003cem\u003ePuerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThird World Women and the Politics of Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTortilleras: Hispanic and the Latina Lesbian Expression.\u003c\/em\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47271159922937,"sku":"9780199326150","price":71.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eA4ulVTNdZ9780199326150.webp?v=1768924694","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/spanish-in-chicago-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}