Publications

Publication details [#27532]

Bills, Garland D., Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez and Alan Hudson. 1995. The geography of language shift: Distance from the Mexican border and Spanish language claiming in the Southwestern U.S. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (114) : 9–27.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language shift | language use | minority

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study examines the effects of four factors in the maintenance of the use of Spanish in five southwestern American states, namely assimilation, immigration, rural (vs urban) residence and, especially, distance from the Mexican border.