Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Language integration through education
7. Prosody perception meets language attitudes 11
8. Perceptual attitudes towards Spanish in the Panhandle of West Virginia 39
9. Differing attitudes toward Spanish sign languages in three Galician pre- and primary schools 61
10. The role of attitudes in the management of multilingualism in Brazilian schools located in the Brazil-Paraguay border region 83
11. Part II. Language policy
12. Attitudes toward Portuguese in Uruguay in the nineteenth century 111
13. Patterns of linguistic vitality 137
14. Language use, language attitudes and identity in Curaçao 155
15. Part III. Language maintenance
16. Parental language attitudes and language use among Brazilian families in Japan 185
17. Portuguese in Massachusetts 207
18. Spanish-speaking immigrants in Indiana 231
19. Part IV. Closing reflections
20. The study of language attitudes 255
21. Index 273