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Introduction: Selected Proceedings Of The Second Workshop On Spanish Sociolinguistics, Lotfi Sayahi, Maurice Westmoreland Jan 2005

Introduction: Selected Proceedings Of The Second Workshop On Spanish Sociolinguistics, Lotfi Sayahi, Maurice Westmoreland

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

This introduction to the Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics includes descriptions of the papers chosen for the volume and acknowledgments.


Nomadismos Lingüisticos Y Culturales En Yo-Yo Boing De Giannina Braschi (Linguistic And Cultural Monadisms In 'Yo-Yo Boing' By Giannina Braschi), Laura R. Loustau Jan 2005

Nomadismos Lingüisticos Y Culturales En Yo-Yo Boing De Giannina Braschi (Linguistic And Cultural Monadisms In 'Yo-Yo Boing' By Giannina Braschi), Laura R. Loustau

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

"En la novela Yo-Yo Boing Giannina Braschi plantea un bilingüismo e identidad nomádica. Huye del concepto de permanencia y arraigo, definiéndose en sus personajes como un ser errante y proponiendo una yuxtaposición lingüística propia. Braschi utiliza un code-switching para subrayar la complejidad de vivir simultáneamente en más de una cultura y una lengua. El concepto teórico que da impulso a este artículo es la definición sobre la conciencia nómada que plantea Rosi Braidotti. Para Braidotti lo que define el estado nomádico es la subversión de convenciones fijas y estáticas. Braschi, en Yo-Yo Boing subvierte las convenciones lingüísticas al incorporar un …


Spanish Speakers And Early 'Latino' Expression, LáZaro Lima Jan 2005

Spanish Speakers And Early 'Latino' Expression, LáZaro Lima

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Spanish speakers have been present and writing in what is today the United States since the late sixteenth century, when Spanish explorers and colonizers described their experiences in chronicles, prose, poems, and epistolary exchanges. But it was not until the nineteenth century that Spanish speakers from various Latin American countries and Spain began to develop a cultural identity within the United States that was linguistically, racially, and culturally distinct from the Anglo-American majority culture. In the nineteenth century Spanish speakers comprised three principal groups: American citizens of Spanish ancestry, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Americans, and exiled political figures in the …


Investigation Of The Outcomes Of Delivering Training To Spanish Speakers In Standard Spanish Versus Their Native Dialect, Mary Kosarzycki Jan 2005

Investigation Of The Outcomes Of Delivering Training To Spanish Speakers In Standard Spanish Versus Their Native Dialect, Mary Kosarzycki

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The present study explored the outcomes of delivering training to Spanish speakers in either their native dialect or in Standard Spanish in the context of a self-running, narrated PowerPoint presentation on a health topic, "The Importance of Vaccinations." The training outcomes that were examined included learning scores; attitudes toward the training; and attitudes toward employment with organizations that employed the same or different dialect-speaking employees, supervisors, and trainers. In addition to examining the effects of ethnicity upon outcomes, this study also examined the effect of age, education level, time in the U.S., and familiarity with the locally dominant subgroup's dialect. …


Divorce Law Goes Into Effect, Ladb Staff Dec 2004

Divorce Law Goes Into Effect, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Us-Andean Free Trade Negotiations, Ladb Staff Dec 2004

Us-Andean Free Trade Negotiations, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Cuba In Recent Summits, Ladb Staff Dec 2004

Cuba In Recent Summits, Ladb Staff

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Isthmus Forests Threatened, Ladb Staff Dec 2004

Isthmus Forests Threatened, Ladb Staff

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Supreme Court To Make Final Decision On 2005 Budget, Ladb Staff Dec 2004

Supreme Court To Make Final Decision On 2005 Budget, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Pri's Labor Reform Proposal Expected To Win Congressional Approval, Ladb Staff Dec 2004

Pri's Labor Reform Proposal Expected To Win Congressional Approval, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Shining Path Leader In Second Trial, Ladb Staff Dec 2004

Shining Path Leader In Second Trial, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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No Consensus On Oas Candidate, Ladb Staff Dec 2004

No Consensus On Oas Candidate, Ladb Staff

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Lynching Of Three Undercover Police Officers Worries Authorities, Ladb Staff Dec 2004

Lynching Of Three Undercover Police Officers Worries Authorities, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of English And Spanish Academic Proficiency Of Pre-Service Bilingual Teachers At A University In South Texas, Matthew E. Meyers Dec 2004

Analysis Of English And Spanish Academic Proficiency Of Pre-Service Bilingual Teachers At A University In South Texas, Matthew E. Meyers

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The purpose of this research was to examine the English and Spanish academic writing proficiency of pre-service bilingual teachers at a university in south Texas and attempt to establish factors that have influenced that proficiency or lack of proficiency. Ninety-four participants who volunteered to take part in the study completed a 50-question survey that solicited demographic information and perceived proficiencies in English and Spanish. After collecting the data from the survey, participants wrote essays on four separate themes. Two of the essays were written in Spanish, and two were written in English. The compositions purported to elicit the participants' written …


President Chavez Consolidates Power, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

President Chavez Consolidates Power, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Chilean Government Takes Responsibility, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Chilean Government Takes Responsibility, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Cafta Development Model, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Cafta Development Model, Ladb Staff

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Pri Wins Big In Tamaulipas, Puebla Gubernatorial Races, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Pri Wins Big In Tamaulipas, Puebla Gubernatorial Races, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Mexico Seeks Immigration Accord In Second Term Of U.S. President Bush, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Mexico Seeks Immigration Accord In Second Term Of U.S. President Bush, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Election Brings First Leftist Coalition, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Election Brings First Leftist Coalition, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Court Upholds Peso Conversion, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Court Upholds Peso Conversion, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Fmln Conflict Rises In El Salvador, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Fmln Conflict Rises In El Salvador, Ladb Staff

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No abstract provided.


Win For Fsln In Nicargua Election, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Win For Fsln In Nicargua Election, Ladb Staff

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Lower House, Senate Differ On Oil Eexport Price Forecast For 2005 Budget, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Lower House, Senate Differ On Oil Eexport Price Forecast For 2005 Budget, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Congress Removes Immunity From Local Legislator Accused Of Corruption, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Congress Removes Immunity From Local Legislator Accused Of Corruption, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


A Corrupt Costa Rica Rethinks History, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

A Corrupt Costa Rica Rethinks History, Ladb Staff

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Senate Reappoints Human Rights Ombud Despite Opposition From Ngos, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Senate Reappoints Human Rights Ombud Despite Opposition From Ngos, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Pemex Director Raul Munoz Leos Resigns Under Pressure, Ladb Staff Nov 2004

Pemex Director Raul Munoz Leos Resigns Under Pressure, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Ecuador Seeks To Regulate Colombian Immigrants, Ladb Staff Oct 2004

Ecuador Seeks To Regulate Colombian Immigrants, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Prosecution Of President Lozada For Protestor Killings, Ladb Staff Oct 2004

Prosecution Of President Lozada For Protestor Killings, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.