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The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico

Author : Amílcar Antonio Barreto
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063825
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico by : Amílcar Antonio Barreto

Download or read book The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico written by Amílcar Antonio Barreto and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A [book] rich in detail and analysis, which anyone wanting to understand the language debate in Puerto Rico will find essential."--Arlene Davila, Syracuse University This is the first book in English to analyze the controversial language policies passed by the Puerto Rican government in the 1990s. It is also the first to explore the connections between language and cultural identity and politics on the Caribbean island. Shortly after the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898, both English and Spanish became official languages of the territory. In 1991, the Puerto Rican government abolished bilingualism, claiming that "Spanish only" was necessary to protect the culture from North American influences. A few years later bilingualism was restored and English was promoted in public schools, with supporters asserting that the dual languages symbolized the island’s commitment to live in harmony with the United States. While the islanders’ sense of ethnic pride was growing, economic dependency enticed them to maintain close ties to the United States. This book shows that officials in both San Juan and Washington, along with English-first groups, used the language laws as weapons in the battle over U.S.-Puerto Rican relations and the volatile debate over statehood. It will be of interest to linguists, political scientists, students of contemporary cultural politics, and political activists in discussions of nationalism in multilingual communities.

The Politics of Language

Author : Carol L. Schmid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198031505
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Language written by Carol L. Schmid and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host to more bilingual people than any other country in the world. Language is more than a means of communication. It brings into play an entire range of experiences and attitudes toward life. Furthermore, language is a potent symbolic issue because it links power and political claims of ownership with psychological demands for group worth. How people belonging to different language and cultural communities live together in the same political community and how political and structural tensions arise to divide them along language lines, are questions addressed in The Politics of Language. This book analyzes the historical background and recent controversy over language in the United States and compares it to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. It's accessibility as a survey of this topic makes it ideal for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology.

The Politics Of Language

Author : Pastora Cafferty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000304752
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Politics Of Language written by Pastora Cafferty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographers predict that by the end of the century Spanish-speaking persons will constitute the largest minority group in the United States--in this context, bilingual education must be considered a crucial issue for educators and policymakers at the state, national, and local levels. Professors Cafferty and Rivera-Martínez analyze bilingual education policies and programs, particularly as they affect the Puerto Rican child, and reach some startling conclusions. They find that these programs do not, despite the best intentions, offer the equal opportunity and social mobility that has been their purpose. While the authors attempt to neither examine nor define the general problem of bilingual education methodology, they do address the problem of educating the Puerto Rican child as one minority among many. They suggest alternatives for solving the problem and recommend specific policies for federal, state, and local governments attempting to integrate Spanish-speaking minorities into the educational process.

Negotiating Empire

Author : Solsiree del Moral
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299289338
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Empire written by Solsiree del Moral and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the United States invaded Puerto Rico in 1898, the new unincorporated territory sought to define its future. Seeking to shape the next generation and generate popular support for colonial rule, U.S. officials looked to education as a key venue for promoting the benefits of Americanization. At the same time, public schools became a site where Puerto Rican teachers, parents, and students could formulate and advance their own projects for building citizenship. In Negotiating Empire, Solsiree del Moral demonstrates how these colonial intermediaries aimed for regeneration and progress through education. Rather than seeing U.S. empire in Puerto Rico during this period as a contest between two sharply polarized groups, del Moral views their interaction as a process of negotiation. Although educators and families rejected some tenets of Americanization, such as English-language instruction, they also redefined and appropriated others to their benefit to increase literacy and skills required for better occupations and social mobility. Pushing their citizenship-building vision through the schools, Puerto Ricans negotiated a different school project—one that was reformist yet radical, modern yet traditional, colonial yet nationalist.

The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico

Author : Amílcar Antonio Barreto
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 168340114X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico by : Amílcar Antonio Barreto

Download or read book The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico written by Amílcar Antonio Barreto and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, the Puerto Rican government abolished bilingualism, claiming that “Spanish only” was necessary to protect the culture from North American influences. A few years later bilingualism was restored and English was promoted in public schools. This revised edition of The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico is updated with an emphasis on the dual arenas where the language controversy played out—Puerto Rico and the United States Congress—and includes new data on the connections between language and conflicting notions of American identity. This book shows that officials in both San Juan and Washington, along with English-first groups, used these language laws as weapons in the battle over U.S.-Puerto Rican relations and the volatile debate over statehood.

The Politics of English in Puerto Rico's Public Schools

Author : Jorge R. Schmidt
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781935049944
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (499 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of English in Puerto Rico's Public Schools by : Jorge R. Schmidt

Download or read book The Politics of English in Puerto Rico's Public Schools written by Jorge R. Schmidt and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have colonial and partisan politics in Puerto Rico affected the language used in public schools? What can we learn from the conflict over the place of English in Puerto Rican society? How has the role of English evolved over time? Addressing these questions, Jorge Schmidt incisively explores the complex relationships among politics, language, and education in Puerto Rico from 1898, when Spain ceded the island to the United States, to the present.

Being Bilingual in Borinquen

Author : Alicia Pousada
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443896071
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Being Bilingual in Borinquen written by Alicia Pousada and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish-speaking island of Puerto Rico (also known as Borinquen) has had a complex linguistic landscape since 1898, due to the United States’ colonial imposition of English as the language of administration and education. Even after 1948, when Puerto Rico was finally permitted to hold its own gubernatorial elections and determine its own language policies, controversy regarding how best to achieve bilingualism continued. Despite many studies of the language dynamic of the island, the voices of the people who actually live there have been muted. This volume opens with a basic introduction to bilingualism, with special reference to Puerto Rico. It then showcases twenty-five engaging personal histories written by Puerto Rican language professionals which reveal how they became bilingual, the obstacles faced, the benefits accrued, and the linguistic and cultural future they envision for themselves and their children. The closing chapter analyzes the commonalities of their richly detailed stories as well as the variability of their bilingual life experiences in order to inform a more nuanced language policy for Puerto Rico. The linguistic autobiographies will resonate with bilinguals of all kinds in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, as well as those in other countries. The main message that emerges from the book is that there are many routes to multilingualism, and one-size-fits-all language policies are doomed to miss their mark.

The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity

Author : Brenda Domínguez-Rosado
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443882097
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity by : Brenda Domínguez-Rosado

Download or read book The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity written by Brenda Domínguez-Rosado and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and identity have an undeniable link, but what happens when a second language is imposed on a populace? Can a link be broken or transformed? Are the attitudes towards the imposed language influential? Can these attitudes change over time? The mixed-methods results provided by this book are ground-breaking because they document how historical and traditional attitudes are changing towards both American English (AE) and Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS) on an island where the population has been subjected to both Spanish and US colonization. There are presently almost four million people living in Puerto Rico, while the Puerto Rican diaspora has surpassed it with more than this living in the United States alone. Because of this, many members of the diaspora no longer speak PRS, yet consider themselves to be Puerto Rican. Traditional stances against people who do not live on the island or speak the predominant language (PRS) yet wish to identify themselves as Puerto Rican have historically led to prejudice and strained relationships between people of Puerto Rican ancestry. The sample study provided here shows that there is not only a change in attitude towards the traditional link between PRS and Puerto Rican identity (leading to the inclusion of diasporic Puerto Ricans), but also a wider acceptance of the English language itself on this Caribbean island.

The Politics of Puerto Rican University Students

Author : Arthur Liebman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292766270
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Puerto Rican University Students written by Arthur Liebman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, when students everywhere were coming alive politically, and when the Latin American student activist in particular became as archetypal of radicalism as the Latin American dictator was of repression, Puerto Rican students remained strangely silent. With the exception of FUPI, a radical student group with only a small following, student political behavior conformed to that of Puerto Rican society in general—center to conservative. Historically, Puerto Rico has been economically and politically dominated first by Spain and then by the United States. But unlike other colonial dependencies in Latin America, Puerto Rico has never rebelled. Puerto Rican politics centers on the status issue—independence, statehood, or association for the island. But no legendary victories, no heroic defeats offer a battle cry for nationalists, leftists, and independistas. Overwhelming foreign influence in the Church, the schools, the economy, and eventually the mass media deprived the island of any strong indigenous institutions that might foster nationalism. Militancy lies outside the mainstream of Puerto Rican tradition. Against this historical and cultural backdrop, Arthur Liebman closely examines the social background and political activity of students at the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico. Based on personal interviews with students, faculty, and administrators, as well as on a survey of the student body, his study reveals the strength of political inheritance among university students in Puerto Rico. The student left is small and weak largely because the left of the parents’ generation is small and weak. To date, Puerto Rican students have been the children of their parents and of their society. Within a university that emphasizes practicality, the nonmilitant majority of the students study education, business, engineering, and medicine, being trained to participate in and to reap the rewards of the status quo. Student leftists, in the minority, generally study history, economics, sociology, and law—fields that open wider perspectives on their society and its problems and offer no immediate guarantee of its benefits. Brighter, less religious, and more dissatisfied with their role as a student, the student leftists stand apart from their cohort at the University of Puerto Rico. Like their adult counterparts, they are an anomaly in an acquisitive, relatively conservative society.

The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World

Author : Clare Mar-Molinero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134730705
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World written by Clare Mar-Molinero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces how and why Spanish has arrived at its current position, examining its role in the diverse societies where it is spoken from Europe to the Americas.

English Language Teaching: a Political Factor in Puerto Rico?

Author : Mirta Martes-Rivera
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503512673
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis English Language Teaching: a Political Factor in Puerto Rico? by : Mirta Martes-Rivera

Download or read book English Language Teaching: a Political Factor in Puerto Rico? written by Mirta Martes-Rivera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an educator, Mirta feels blessed and pleased because she has taught courses of English and ESL to students coming from different ethnic groups and social strata from different countries in the world. Likewise, she has conducted research and has written curricular and cross-curricular material published whether in printing or online. But mostly important, she enjoys teaching.

An American Language

Author : Rosina Lozano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520969588
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book An American Language written by Rosina Lozano and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge Ramos An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.

Speaking Spanish in the US

Author : Janet M. Fuller
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 178892830X
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Speaking Spanish in the US written by Janet M. Fuller and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to basic concepts of sociolinguistics with a focus on Spanish in the US. The coverage goes beyond linguistics to examine the history and politics of Spanish in the US, the relationship of language to Latinx identities, and how language ideologies and policies reflect and shape societal views of Spanish and its speakers. Accessible to those with no linguistic background, this book provides students with a foundation in the study of language and society, and the opportunity to relate theoretical concepts to Spanish in the US in a range of contexts, including everyday speech, contemporary culture, media, education and policy. The book is a substantially revised and expanded 2nd edition of Spanish Speakers in the USA, including new chapters on the history of Spanish in the US, the demographics of Spanish in the US, and language policy; and expanded chapters on language ideologies, race, identity, media, and education. A Spanish-language edition of this book is also available: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800413931.

Proposed Legislation to Authorize a Political Status Referendum in Puerto Rico

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1258 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proposed Legislation to Authorize a Political Status Referendum in Puerto Rico written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Political status of Puerto Rico

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political status of Puerto Rico written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proposed Legislation to Authorize a Political Status Referendum in Puerto Rico: Hearing held in Mayaguez, PR, March 12, 1990

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Download or read book Proposed Legislation to Authorize a Political Status Referendum in Puerto Rico: Hearing held in Mayaguez, PR, March 12, 1990 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA

Author : Thom Huebner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027298882
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA written by Thom Huebner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of a colloquium on socio-political dimensions of language policy and language planning held at the 1997 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. The focus is on language planning and policy in the USA, but the issues raised will be applicable to other parts of the world as well. Three broad issues are addressed: general aspects, case studies dealing with certain languages or ethnic groups, and language planning in practice. The first, general, part, provides a historical analysis of language planning and language policy in the US, and proceeds to deal with maintenance and loss of indigenous languages, and the constraints imposed by current policies and how these constraints can be effectively dealt with. The second part contains a number of case studies. It discusses aspects of planning policies pertaining to pidgin languages, gestural languages used by the deaf (ASL) and constraints in foreign language education; this part also raises issues relating to ethnic groups, concentrating on the position of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the US. In the third part some practical issues are raised by looking into the role of language and culture in teaching reading, foreign language policy in higher education, Hawaiian language regenisis, and gender neutralization in American English. The book is a tribute to Charlene Junko Sato, a sociolinguist and a language activist. She died in 1996 and will be remembered for her work not only in linguistics, but also for her dedication in advancing Hawaiian Pidgin, influencing language policy through various publications and court-room appearances.