The social meaning of Spanish in Miami: Dialect perceptions and implications for socioeconomic class, income, and employment

Carter, Phillip M.; Callesano, Salvatore

doi:10.1057/s41276-017-0105-8

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“…Scholarship in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology has revealed that many low-income Hispanic caregivers may not interact with their children in their native Spanish due to the perception that Spanish language use overlaps with social inequality for Hispanics in the USA (e.g. Carter, 2014; Carter and Callesano, 2018). Carter (2014) and Zentella (1997) have also described the ‘double figurative’ of Spanish in the USA, where Spanish language use is productive and positive for Anglo-whites but is unproductive and negative for Hispanics.…”

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Háblame Bebé: A phone application intervention to support Hispanic children’s early language environments and bilingualism

Baralt

Mahoney

Brito

2020

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

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The early language environments of low-income Hispanic children can be negatively affected when their Spanish-speaking caregivers face racism, assimilation pressure, and/or misinformed advice based on English-only ideologies. This article reports on the design and efficacy of Háblame Bebé, a language-promoting phone application that encourages low-income Hispanic mothers to talk more to their children in their native Spanish with the goals of (1) improving their children’s early language environment, (2) promoting bilingualism, and (3) monitoring developmental milestones. The app was designed and tested across three phases as mandated by the US HRSA Bridging the Word Gap Challenge. In Phase I, we developed a curriculum that promotes high-quality language interactions in Spanish and designed the app components. In Phase II, we tested the app with 20 Hispanic mothers (half high school-educated, half college-educated) in a pretest–posttest design in which we examined their language interactions before and after two months of using the app. Preliminary results indicated that mother–child verbal interactions increased, but not always in their native Spanish, and the difference was not statistically significant. Focus group data revealed that many of the mothers had experienced linguistic racism and that tropes surrounding Spanish-speaking identity in the USA needed to be explicitly addressed within the intervention. In Phase III, a sociolinguistic pride component was added and the app was again tested with 12 additional Hispanic mothers (all high school-educated only). This time, a statistically significant increase in mother–child verbal interactions was found. Mothers also reported feeling prouder to use Spanish with their children. These results suggest that Háblame Bebé may be a viable means to reach low-income Hispanic caregivers who face obstacles in accessing health information and/or home-visiting programs for their children.

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Háblame Bebé: A phone application intervention to support Hispanic children’s early language environments and bilingualism

Baralt

Mahoney

Brito

2020

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

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“…Results showed a negative correlation between “good” Basque and “authentic” Basque, meaning that if a speaker perceived DOM as “bad” Basque, it also perceived the guise as “less Basque”—but only in the Batua guise. Similarly, Carter and Callesano () and Callesano and Carter () examine the implicit perceptions of a number of Latinx communities in Miami and show that speakers' judgements systematically vary according to other social components. These results indicate that the MGT can be used productively to examine how the social perception of a particular linguistic variant is connected to multiple social meanings that are ideologically linked.…”

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“…Results showed a negative correlation between "good" Basque and "authentic" Basque, meaning that if a speaker perceived DOM as "bad" Basque, it also perceived the guise as "less Basque"-but only in the Batua guise. Similarly, Carter and Callesano (2018) and Callesano and Carter (2019) examine the implicit perceptions of a number of Latinx communities in Miami and show that speakers' judgements systematically vary according to other social components.…”

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The role of linguistic ideologies in language contact situations

Rodríguez‐Ordóñez¹

2019

Language and Linguist. Compass

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The field of contact linguistics has long argued for the paramount importance of social factors in understanding the outcomes of linguistic contact. In contrast, linguistic ideologies have not played a central role in theories of language contact, though this has begun to change in recent decades. This article provides an account of early theorizations of linguistic ideologies and their increasingly important applications to the study of contact phenomena. A brief survey of more recent theoretical advancements with respect to ideologies and contact phenomena follows, paying special attention to studies in linguistic anthropology and variationist sociolinguistics. While recognizing the challenges inherent in the study of linguistic ideologies, this article argues that they should be at the foreground of contact linguistics. To this end, methodological tools for such study are presented, along with theoretical considerations and future directions.

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“…Unlike in Los Angeles, where English proficiency is a highly valued social resource and use of Spanish is not uniformly considered an asset, Spanish is Miami's most utilized language. Recent scholarship by sociologist Monika Gosin (2019) focusing on Afro-Cubans in Miami supports the contemporary validity of the claim that immigrants with a high level of competency in reading, writing, and speaking Spanish and those with the ability to fluidly switch between English and Spanish (Aranda et al, 2016;Carter & Callesano, 2018) effectively use these skills in Miami as social capital to construct support networks and gain employment.…”

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The Transnational "Good Life": Ecuadorian Social Clubs as Spaces of Resistance

Hall¹

2020

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The social meaning of Spanish in Miami: Dialect perceptions and implications for socioeconomic class, income, and employment

Cited by 25 publications

References 43 publications

Háblame Bebé: A phone application intervention to support Hispanic children’s early language environments and bilingualism

Háblame Bebé: A phone application intervention to support Hispanic children’s early language environments and bilingualism

The role of linguistic ideologies in language contact situations

The Transnational "Good Life": Ecuadorian Social Clubs as Spaces of Resistance

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