Recovering the U.S. Hispanic linguistic heritage : sociohistorical approaches to Spanish in the United States / edited by Alejandra Balestra, Glenn Martínez and María Irene Moyna.

Includes bibliographical references.

Essays in English and Spanish.

In this fascinating exploration of the development of the Spanish language from a sociohistorical perspective in the territory that has become the United States, linguists and editors Balestra, Martínez, and Moyna draw attention to the long tradition of multilingualism in the United States in the hope of putting to rest the myth that the U.S. was ever a monolingual nation.

Sociohistorical Approaches to Spanish in the United States -- Contents -- Part I -- Introduction -- Historical background -- Language Policies -- Methodology -- Language Maintenance and Language Shift -- Organization of the Volume -- Part II -- Formas de tratamiento en correspondencia en español:California y Nuevo México, 1800-1900 -- Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche: una mujer en la Inquisición en Nuevo México, una voz en la historia del español del Sudoeste de los Estados Unidos --

Espinosa's Diary Chronicling the 1716 Ramón Expedition into Texas: Notes on the Translations -- La expresión de la pasividad en California en el siglo XIX -- Language Wars on the Texas Frontier -- How the Californio Girls (and Boys) Lost Their Accents -- Dialect Death:The Case of Adaeseño Spanish in Northwest Louisiana -- Contributors.

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