Spanglish by Ilan Stavans
Brand: HarperCollins
Product 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 nations unofficial second language it is highly visible on several 24hour 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 mid1980s 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. show more
Condition : New
Author : Ilan Stavans
Weight : 574
Publisher : HarperCollins
Language : English
EAN : 9780060087760
ISBN10 : 0060087765
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20040504
Place of Publication : New York NY United States
Pagination : 288 Pages
Dimensions : 203 X 135