Ethnic nicknames of Spanish origin in American English

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Contributors XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Spanish Loanwords in English by 1900 13
7. Recent borrowings from Spanish into English 41
8. Stylistic aspects of Spanish borrowings in the political press: Lexical and morphological variations 61
9. Spanish loanwords in contemporary American English slang 105
10. Ethnic nicknames of Spanish origin in American English 139
11. Hispanic tracks in English: cowboys and goldrushers in the Old West 157
12. Spanish place names in the United States 177
13. Lexical selection and borrowing in the bilingual Southwest 185
14. The Anglo-American stereotype of the Hispanic as reflected in loanwords 205
15. Spanish words in Anglo-American literature: A Chicano perspective 213
16. Aspects of the incidence of hispanicisms in British English: A study in language, history, politics and psychology 231
17. Spanish loanwords in Caribbean English 253
18. Lexical borrowings from Spanish into English: A bibliographical guide 269
19. Index 295