Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ilan Stavans
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 141
Category/Genrelinguistics
ISBN/Barcode 9780060087760
ClassificationsDewey:460
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint HarperCollins
Publication Date 3 August 2004
Publication Country United States

Description

With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the more influential markers of an America gone Latino. Spanish, present on this continent since the fifteenth century, when Iberian explorers sought to colonize territories in what are now Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and California, has become ubiquitous in the last few decades. The nation's unofficial second language, it is highly visible on several 24-hour TV networks and on more than 200 radio stations across the country. But Spanish north of the Rio Grande has not spread in its pure Iberian form. On the contrary, a signature of the brewing "Latin Fever" that has swept the United States since the mid-1980s is the astonishing creative linguistic amalgam of tongues used by people of Hispanic descent, not only in major cities but in rural areas as well -- neither Spanish nor English, but a hybrid, known only as Spanglish.

Author Biography

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College-40th Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Ilan Stavans nacio en Mexico, en 1961. Curso estudios de posgrado en la Universidad de Columbia, y ahora tiene la catedra Lewis-Sebring de cultura latina y latinoamericana en Amherst College.