Spanish and English in Small Town and Rural America: Language Contact Leading to Language Shift

by Daniel J. Smith

This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics recently immigrated from Mexico and other areas of Latin America. Speech data from naturally-occurring conversations by 56 children and adults of both sexes are analyzed within Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model. Eight language patterns are identified, including monolingual Spanish and English turns, codeswitched...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031740726
• ISBN13: 9783031740725
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages