Language Allegiances and Bilingualism in the US

M. Rafael Salaberry (PhD, Cornell University) is Professor of Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of Texas-Austin). Prof. Salaberry’s research focuses on (1) the development of tense and aspect among adult second language learners, (2) second language teaching, including methodology, testing and web-based learning and (3) bilingual education. His research is presented in several books published by John Benjamins (2000, 2002, 2005), Georgetown University Press (2003, 2006) and Continuum Press (2008) as well as several articles in peer-refereed journals. He is also the producer of the documentary film "€œThe Choosers"€ (2006) on two-way bilingual education.

• Chapter 1: Language Allegiances - Rafael SalaberryChapter 2: Language Attitudes and Linguistic Outcomes in Reading, Pennsylvania - Jacqueline ToribioChapter 3: A Sociolinguistic View of Speech Sciences - Nancy NiedzielskiChapter 4: Linguistic Profiling: The Linguistic Point of View - Dennis R. PrestonChapter 5: The Bilingual’s Hoarse Voice: Losing Rights in Two Languages - Sandra Del ValleChapter 6: Problems with the ‘Language-as-resource’ Discourse in the Promotion of Heritage Languages in the USA - Thomas RicentoChapter 7: English Hegemony and the Politics of Ethno-Linguistic Justice in the United States - Ronald SchmidtChapter 8: Livin' and Teachin' la lengua loca: Glocalizing US Spanish Ideologies and Practices - Ofelia GarcíaChapter 9: Bilingual Education: Assimilation, Segregation and Integration - Rafael Salaberry

This book offers a well-made selection of illuminating perspectives on the relation between language and identity in the United States. The contributors - an all-star cast - study the conditions under which beliefs and attitudes towards language are produced and survey the roles they play and effects they have within the fields of culture, education, and politics. With this volume, the sociology of language takes a step forward in its long-standing effort to produce a coherent articulation of language and politics as an object of research.