A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora

Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies

Rosina Márquez Reiter & Luisa Martín Rojo 2014

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This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. There is new interest in the ways in which migrants negotiate and renegotiate identities through their continued interactions with their own culture back home, in the host country, in similar diaspora elsewhere, and with the various “new” cultures of the receiving country. This collection focuses on two broad political and social contexts: the established Latino communities in urban settings in North America and newer Latin American communities in Europe and the Middle East. It explores the role of migration/diaspora in transforming linguistic practices, ideologies, and identities.

Review

“A welcome contribution to the emerging body of work in sociolinguistics more generally and the sociolinguistics of Latino cultures more specifically.”

— Bernadette O’Rourke, Heriot-Watt University, UK

About the Author

Rosina Márquez Reiter is Reader in the School of English and Languages at the University of Surrey, UK.

Luisa Martín Rojo is Professor of Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma, Spain.