Processes of linguistic accommodation within the Puerto Rican diaspora in New Jersey
This article explores the sociocultural and linguistic experiences of eight Puerto Ricans who have migrated to the state of New Jersey. While previous research has shown how the Puerto Rican diaspora has linguistically accommodated across the United States, this study investigates the role of lingu...
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This article explores the sociocultural and linguistic experiences of eight Puerto Ricans who have migrated to the state of New Jersey. While previous research has shown how the Puerto Rican diaspora has linguistically accommodated across the United States, this study investigates the role of linguistic attitudes and accommodation processes in the maintenance, reinforcement, or erasure of sociophonological and lexical features in Puerto Ricans who have migrated to New Jersey. Through a Grounded Theory approach, this study discloses how these individuals navigate linguistic norms, maintain cultural identity, and challenge racial and linguistic discrimination. Findings show a range of linguistic accommodation strategies, varying from preserving their Puerto Rican Spanish phonological features to code-switch (Spanish-English) and terminology explanation to have mutual understanding when talking to other Spanish-speaking communities.
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| spelling | doaj-art-2d37a92908d94784a9593d78b9fe5f792024-12-20T11:54:17ZdeuUniversidad NebrijaRevista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas1699-65692024-12-01183710.26378/rnlael1837587Processes of linguistic accommodation within the Puerto Rican diaspora in New JerseyYhosep Barba Blanco This article explores the sociocultural and linguistic experiences of eight Puerto Ricans who have migrated to the state of New Jersey. While previous research has shown how the Puerto Rican diaspora has linguistically accommodated across the United States, this study investigates the role of linguistic attitudes and accommodation processes in the maintenance, reinforcement, or erasure of sociophonological and lexical features in Puerto Ricans who have migrated to New Jersey. Through a Grounded Theory approach, this study discloses how these individuals navigate linguistic norms, maintain cultural identity, and challenge racial and linguistic discrimination. Findings show a range of linguistic accommodation strategies, varying from preserving their Puerto Rican Spanish phonological features to code-switch (Spanish-English) and terminology explanation to have mutual understanding when talking to other Spanish-speaking communities. https://revistas.nebrija.com/revista-linguistica/article/view/587linguistic accommodationlanguage attitudescode-switchinggrounded-theorylanguage and identity |
| spellingShingle | Yhosep Barba Blanco Processes of linguistic accommodation within the Puerto Rican diaspora in New Jersey Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas linguistic accommodation language attitudes code-switching grounded-theory language and identity |
| title | Processes of linguistic accommodation within the Puerto Rican diaspora in New Jersey |
| title_full | Processes of linguistic accommodation within the Puerto Rican diaspora in New Jersey |
| title_fullStr | Processes of linguistic accommodation within the Puerto Rican diaspora in New Jersey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Processes of linguistic accommodation within the Puerto Rican diaspora in New Jersey |
| title_short | Processes of linguistic accommodation within the Puerto Rican diaspora in New Jersey |
| title_sort | processes of linguistic accommodation within the puerto rican diaspora in new jersey |
| topic | linguistic accommodation language attitudes code-switching grounded-theory language and identity |
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