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Language contact, language loyalty, and language prejudice on the Mexican border*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Margarita Hidalgo
Margarita Hidalgo
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Department of Romance LanguagesState University of New York at Binghamton
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Abstract

This paper documents attitudes toward English, Spanish, and Spanish-English Code-switching in Juarez, Mexico, the oldest and largest city along the Mexican–U.S. border. It refutes the finding of related work which has shown two distinct orientations – integrative and instrumental – toward English as a foreign and as a second language, but supports various assumptions regarding the relationship between attitudes and use and the impact of the local milieu on language attitudes. It also explores attitudes toward correctness and sentiments of language loyalty, and highlights the influence of language loyalty on perceptions of Spanish-English Code-switching. Eighty-five Juarez residents were interviewed. (Language attitudes, so-ciolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics, border studies, ethnic studies, Latin American studies)

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Language in Society , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 193 - 220
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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