[eBook] [PDF] For Spanish in Chicago 1st Edition By Kim Potowski, Lourdes Torres

[eBook] [PDF] For Spanish in Chicago 1st Edition By Kim Potowski, Lourdes Torres

Spanish in Chicago is the first book to study how Spanish is spoken in Chicago, a city where people from Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived together for many years. Today, nearly a third of the people in Chicago are Latino. This book looks at how Spanish is spoken in the city and how it has changed over time.

The authors, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres, talk to 124 people from three generations of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican families in Chicago. They study how the Spanish language is different because of the mixing of different regions and dialects. They focus on things like new words, how people talk, switching between Spanish and English, verb forms, and pronunciation.

What makes this study special is that it looks at how language changes over three generations of people from different backgrounds, all living in the same city. The book also talks about the idea of MexiRican, which refers to people with both Mexican and Puerto Rican roots, and how their language is influenced by both cultures. The authors also explore how families affect each other’s language at home.

By looking at how the Spanish language has changed in Chicago’s Latino communities, Spanish in Chicago gives us a clear picture of how a minority language works in a big U.S. city. This book helps us understand how language is connected to culture and society.