Kim Potowski
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kim Potowski plays a role.
Journals
Titles
IntraLatino Language and Identity: MexiRican Spanish
Kim Potowski
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 43] 2016. ix, 278 pp.
Subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies
Edited by Kim Potowski and Jason Rothman
[Studies in Bilingualism, 42] 2011. vi, 371 pp.
Subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries
Edited by Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 22] 2007. xx, 398 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Language policy | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Current issues in Spanish heritage language education Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language, Pascual y Cabo, Diego (ed.), pp. 127–142 | Article
2016 As the present volume makes abundantly clear, the Latino population in the United States is increasing and making an important impact all levels of education. The five chapters in this section focus on the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers in postsecondary contexts. This introductory chapter… read more
This chapter offers an analysis of codeswitching in Latino Chicago. The data were collected in one-hour, Spanish language sociolinguistic interviews with 64 Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and MexiRicans from three generational groups. We argue that codeswitching is a shared practice in the Chicago… read more
: Spanish in English-speaking societies Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies, Potowski, Kim and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 3–6 | Preface
2011 3. Hybridized tradition, language use, and identity in the U.S. Latina quinceañera ritual Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies, Potowski, Kim and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 57–87 | Article
2011 The quinceañera, a rite of passage marking the 15th birthday of a Latina girl, is an important site of language and identity enactment. Past research (Horowitz 1993; Davalos 1996; Cantú 1999, 2002; and Alvarez 2007) provides ample evidence of the shifting nature of the quinceañera tradition in the… read more
9. "I was raised talking like my mom": The influence of mothers in the development of MexiRicans' phonological and lexical features Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages, Niño-Murcia, Mercedes and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 201–220 | Article
2008 Characteristics of the Spanish grammar and sociolinguistic proficiency of dual immersion graduates Spanish in Context 4:2, pp. 187–216 | Article
2007 Dual immersion schools in the United States, which combine native Spanish speakers and students learning Spanish as an L2, encourage English development while promoting Spanish learning. However, relatively little is known about the levels of Spanish attained by dual immersion graduates. This case… read more