Bilingualism Spanish-Speaking World Linguistic Cognitive Perspect… 9780521115537

Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking WorldLinguistic and Cognitive Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Jennifer Austin, Mara Blume, Liliana Snchez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521115537, 978-0521115537\nSynopsis\nBilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local government. This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools, code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena affec.