4/27 Scholarly Event: 'Spanish, Spanglish, and Other Latino Language Varieties: Challenging the English Only Paradigm in the USA'
4 to 7pm
FREE!
Room 5
Blegen Hall
Minneapolis Campus
rofessor Ana Celia Zentella, anthropological linguist at the University of California, San Diego, will present the third lecture in the series: English Only? Assessing the Many Varieties of English in the United States.
Professor Zentella is nationally recognized for her studies of US Latino varieties of Spanish and English, bilingualism, "Spanglish", language socialization, and language policy. Her linguistic ethnography, Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican children in New York City (Blackwell 1997) won the 1998 Book Prize of the British Association of Applied Linguists and the 1998 Book Award of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists. For her scholarship and activism on behalf of Puerto Rican language and culture, Professor Zentella was honored with a "Foremother's Award" at the conference on Women and the Legacy of The People of Puerto Rico into the Twenty-first Century (University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, Oct. 1, 1998). Professor Zentella's recent research involves a quantified sociolinguistic analysis of interdialectal contact, based on an analysis of pronoun use in six varieties of Spanish in NYC (Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Mexican).
Professor Zentella's lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with University of Minnesota experts from the Departments of Anthropology, Chicano Studies, English, the Program in Linguistics, and the School of Education.
Contact:
wbeeman@umn.edu
wbeeman