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They also share a common experience of bilingualism. Mexican Americans and Language gives students the background they need to respond to the multiple social problems that can result from the language differences that exist in the Mexican American community. By showing students how to go from word to deed del dicho al hecho , it reinforces the importance of language for their community, and for their own lives and futures. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published April 6th by University of Arizona Press.
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Download Free PDF. Glenn Martinez. A short summary of this paper. Download Download PDF. Translate PDF. The most salient among them, in my opinion, is the relative porousness of the nation-state boundary.
While studies of language use demonstrate that isoglosses bundle freely on either side of the dividing line, studies of language perception suggest that a conceptual wedge converges on the national border. The sharing of dialect features on both sides of the dividing line, therefore, suggests that the border region is one relatively homogeneous dialect area. It makes them think they're gringos.
It also shows they've rejected their culture and language. I still live here in the United States [in Las Milpas about a mile and a half north of the border], but when I'm ready to raise a family, I'm going back to Mexico. I want my kids raised in a Mexican environment and to feel proud of it' Perceptual dialectology Niedzielski and Preston ; Preston ; Preston and Long ; Williams, Garrett and Coupland seems to me to be a viable model for the investigation of this intriguing aspect of border socio- linguistics.
An investigation of non-linguists' views of areal linguistics in the borderlands can, in my opinion, shed light on: 1 the way in which border residents construct dialect perceptions; and 2 the social values that underpin these constructions. My investigation of perceptual dialectology along the Texas-Mexico border assumes the axiomatic position that perceptions of dialect are not inherent in the language itself but rather are mechanisms that converge on the construction of social identity.
In fact, I would argue that perceptions of dialect are, in essence, nothing more than perceptions of people. Because of this, speakers tend to build up their dialect identity in the same way that they construct their social identity. This entails the. I would argue that dialect perceptions and social perceptions are cut from the same mold. What this means is that dialect perceptions are, at their very core, socially motivated and socially molded constructs.
In the present paper, I will attempt to tease out the social motivation of dialect perceptions and to show how changes in the social structure mold these same perceptions. Social change along the Texas-Mexico border The Texas-Mexico borderland region is ripe with social change.
Following Richardson , I conceive of the border as a unique environment that is at the forefront of social transformation and renewal. My investigation of borderland folk linguistics takes this cultural interaction and accommodation to be a central force in the mental mapping of dialects.
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. These transformations are clearly evident in the sister cities of McAllen, Texas and Reynosa, Mexico. The major impact of NAFTA on theses cities was the rapid proliferation of maquiladora plants during the s.
Maquiladoras are factories that take full advantage of lower wages in developing nations. Multinational corporations generally set up these factories along the U.
In that same year Reynosa, the city under investigation in the present study, had only 17 plants Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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