{"product_id":"bilingualism-in-the-spanish-speaking-world-9780521115537","title":"Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jennifer Austin | María Blume | Liliana Sánchez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local government. This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools, code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena affect the linguistic and cognitive development of the speaker. Using examples and case studies drawn primarily from Spanish\/English bilinguals in the US, Spanish\/Quechua bilinguals in Peru and Spanish\/Basque bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse perspectives on the experience of being bilingual in distinct cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46486380118167,"sku":"9780521115537","price":9685.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521115537.jpg?v=1766330337","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bilingualism-in-the-spanish-speaking-world-9780521115537","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}