Multilingual La La Land -

Multilingual La La Land

Language Use in Sixteen Greater Los Angeles Communities

Claire Hitchins Chik (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
342 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-58051-0 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Multilingual La La Land addresses the sociolinguistic landscape of the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, providing in-depth accounts of the twelve most spoken languages in the region.
Home to immigrants from more than 140 countries speaking over 180 languages, Los Angeles is a microcosm of the world. While Los Angeles' ethnic enclaves have been the subject of study by researchers from a wide range of fields, these enclaves remain under-researched from a linguistic standpoint. Multilingual La La Land addresses the sociolinguistic landscape of the Greater Los Angeles (GLA) area, providing in-depth accounts of the sixteen most spoken languages other than English in the region.

Each chapter introduces the history of the language in the L.A. region, uses census figures and residential densities to examine location-based and network-based speech communities, and discusses the patterns of usage that characterize the language, including motivations to maintain the language. How these patterns and trends bear on the vitality of each language is a central consideration of this book.

Claire Hitchins Chik is Associate Director of the Title VI National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA.

Introduction






Arabic in Greater Los Angeles: Many Varieties, One Community
By Afaf Nash




Armenian in Greater Los Angeles: Negotiating Intralinguistic Diversity in a Diaspora Epicenter
By Shushan Karapetian and Hagop Gulludjian




Chinese: Multiple Varieties in a Changing Greater Los Angeles
By Ming-Hsuan Wu, Claire Hitchins Chik, and Andrew Simpson




Filipino: Language Practices and Affective Connections in Greater Los Angeles
By Nenita Pambid Domingo, Claire Hitchins Chik, and Maria Carreira




French in Greater Los Angeles: Challenges and Opportunities
By Mina Soroosh, Claire Hitchins Chik,and Fabrice Jaumont




German: The Invisible Language Minority: The Historical, Political, and Linguistic Dimensions of the German Language Landscape in Multilingual La La Land
By Britta Bothe




Hebrew and Yiddish in Greater Los Angeles: Bilingualism, Metalinguistic Communities, and Ethnolinguistic Infusion
By Sarah Bunin Benor and Netta Avineri




Japanese: Language Practices and Cultural Exposure over Multiple Generations in Greater Los Angeles
By Mary Ann Triest, Asako Hayashi Takakura,and Claire Hitchins Chik




Khmer Language Use and Presence in the Linguistic Landscape of Greater Los Angeles’ Cambodia Town
By Wayne E. Wright and Virak Chan




Korean in Greater Los Angeles: Negotiation between the Individual and Ethnolinguistic Community Across Generations
By Hannah Saeyoung Lim




Languages of South Asia in Greater Los Angeles: Diversity Diversified

By Gyanam Mahajan and Claire Hitchins Chik






Persian Language Use and Vitality in Tehrangeles
By Amy Malek




Russian in Greater Los Angeles: A Changing Landscape
By Susan Kresin, Dante Matero and Susan Bauckus




Spanish: Never a Foreign Language in Greater Los Angeles
By Maria Carreira




Thai as a Diasporic Language in Greater Los Angeles
By Shoichi Iwasaki and Jenjit Gasigitamrong




Vietnamese: Language Use in Little Saigon and Other Greater Los Angeles Neighborhoods

By Natalie A. Tran, Bang Lang Do, and Claire Hitchins Chik

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 Line drawings, black and white; 34 Halftones, black and white; 36 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 535 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-138-58051-1 / 1138580511
ISBN-13 978-1-138-58051-0 / 9781138580510
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