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- Title: Speaking Spanish in Los Angeles and San Antonio: Who, When, Where, Why (Presidential Address)
- Author : Southwest Journal of Linguistics
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 242 KB
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ABSTRACT. This paper discusses ways in which Los Angeles, California, and San Antonio, Texas, differ with regard to Spanish language use by means of anecdotes and insights from the author's point of view as a community insider in both. Relevant background is presented regarding the two cities' Spanish heritage populations, including current demographics, settlement histories, and linguistic treatment. While the Los Angeles Hispanic/Latino population of about 4 million is the result of much recent immigration (49% foreign-born), only 16.2% of San Antonio's 745,000 Hispanics/Latinos are immigrants. Interview excerpts show that immigration has created a factioned community in Los Angeles, but the San Antonio Mexican American community appears to be more cohesive, with a clear allegiance to Spanish as a marker of ethnic identity. Interestingly, it seems that the increase in recent immigration from Spanish-speaking countries to Southern California has meant a revitalization of Spanish for Los Angeles, whereas the lack of the same to San Antonio may mean a gradual shift to English. * INTRODUCTION. It is an honor for me to be giving this Presidential Address in the place of my birth--Los Angeles, California. No, strictly speaking, this is Pasadena, and I was born in Los Angeles, and then moved to Montebello when I was a baby--or rather, to Simon's brickyard off of Vail Avenue where my grandfather worked. But my formative years were spent in Pico Rivera, just 20 miles down Rosemead Boulevard from here--a world away at the time. It was a post World-War II bedroom community for the industrializing Los Angeles area. I lived in Pico Rivera through middle school and high school, and then attended college at Occidental in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles, just a short distance away from where we are now.