Household Perspectives on Minority Language Maintenance and Loss. Language in the Small Spaces, Paperback/Isabel Velazquez

This book examines minority language maintenance and loss in Spanish-speaking families in communities in the US with a low ethnolinguistic vitality for Spanish. It offers an account of the gendered nature of linguistic transmission and compares the self-perceptions, motivations and attitudes of members of two generations in the same household. Publisher: Multilingual Matters Author(s): Isabel Velazquez Number of pages: 232 Collection: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism Publication date: 2025 Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 15 Cover type: Paperback / softback