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Publication details [#37672]

García, Ofelia, Isabel Evangelista, Mabel Martínez, Carmen Disla and Bonifacio Paulino. 1988. Spanish language use and attitudes: A study of two New York City communities. Language in Society 17 (4) : 475–511.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language attitude | language proficiency | language use | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses the results of a comparative study of Washington Heights and Elmhust/Corona, two Hispanic communities in New York City, regarding language proficiency, language use and language attitudes.