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"Literature, Language, and Politics" brings together papers drawn
from and inspired by the controversial, landmark symposium on
"Politics and the Discipline" held at the 1987 Modern Language
Association meeting in San Francisco.
During the 1980s, debates raged both within and outside academe
over curriculum, with conservatives arguing for a return to an
educational philosophy based on the "classics" of Western
civilization and a multi-cultural coalition of liberals, leftists,
and feminists seeking to preserve the diversity of educational
experience fought for since the 1960s.
Engaging this crucial debate, the contributors to "Literature,
Language, and Politics" argue that the conservative educational
agenda imperils not only scholarship and academic freedom but the
very social well-being of the nation. They call for firm resistance
to any attempts to make education conform to the social agenda of
one race, one gender, one language, or one ideology; for a
continuation of attempts to broaden the curriculum until it
reflects the experience of women and men of all classes and all
cultures.
Includes essays by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gerald Graff, Annette
Kolodny, Paul Lauter, Ellen Messer-Davidow, Catharine R. Stimpson,
and Ana Celia Zentella.
Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of
immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the
largest corpora of spoken Spanish ever assembled for a single city,
Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language
of Latinos in New York City represents a continuation of structural
variation as it is found in Latin America, as well as the extent to
which Spanish has evolved in New York City. Their study, which
focuses on language contact, dialectal leveling, and structural
continuity, carefully distinguishes between the influence of
English and the mutual influences of forms of Spanish with roots in
different parts of Latin America.
Taking variationist sociolinguistics as its guiding paradigm, the
book compares the Spanish of New Yorkers born in Latin America with
that of those born in New York City. Findings are grounded in a
comparative analysis of 140 sociolinguistic interviews of speakers
with origins in Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico
and Puerto Rico. Quantitative analysis (correlations, anovas,
variable hierarchies, constraint hierarchies) reveals the effect on
the use of subject personal pronouns of the speaker's gender,
immigrant generation, years spent in New York, and amount of
exposure to English and to varieties of Spanish. In addition to
these speaker factors, structural and communicative variables,
including the person and tense of the verb and its referential
status, have a significant impact on pronominal usage in New York
City.
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