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Addressing Heterogeneity: Language Use in Urban Environments
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rymes, Betsy R. Lo, Adrienne |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Abstract | Editorial Addressing Heterogeneity: Language Use in Urban Environments Languages, cultures, communities, and Angeles. infinite ways of living meet in its Los Home to over 80 languages, intensity. this city of 3.5 million emanates own unique brand of urban A strategically routed twenty-mile drive across in Glendale, past the the city can take one through the Armenian community Mexi- To- can-American community of East Los Angeles, and kyo. Driving west from into downtown's Little Downtown leads one through Koreatown, then on to the Russian Jewish Fairfax district, through Beverly Hills and the boutiques of Rodeo Westwood and finally, with luck, to a parking Though this imaginary drive suggests clear borders between these communities, every day members of different parts of LA interact and the communities themselves are heterogeneous. What maintains the intensity Drive, past the Persian stores in space near the UCLA campus. of the LA experience is not so much these communities' between and within them. separate existence, but the interaction LA's unique intersection of cultures, languages, and multiple ethnic nities text; commu- has provided a wealth of opportunities for the study of language use in con- at and UCLA, another intersection that between the fields of Applied Lin- guistics, Anthropology, Education, and Sociology — makes its intellectual home in the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC). Much of the research being done by graduate students and faculty at the Center examines language use Los Angeles communities, and given this interest, the organizers of the second on Language, Interaction, and Culture chose to focus on het- erogeneity in urban environments. This one-day conference provided a forum for discussing, across disciplines, work on diverse language coimnunities, and two in UCLA Conference two-hour workshops which focused on videotaped interactions enabled presenters and audience alike to share their views and analytic techniques. conference Three of the papers given at this make up this issue taken together they crack the surface of Los Angeles to reveal the of ial, and complex worlds of language and culture here. The article by Patricia Baquedano-Lopez takes us West Los Angeles where both Spanish language and English language religious education classes are held. Her analysis illuminates how Mexi- inside a church in can American children construct their identities through the telling of the religious narrative of Nuestra Senora de Guadelupe. By weaving analysis of children's identity construction together with a discussion of the internal politics of the church, this article also reveals the tension between the use of Spanish and English and the associated teaching practices in this community. Issues in Applied Linguistics ISSN 1050-4273 Vol. 8 1997, Regents of the University of California No. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 8 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt93x1w8g5/qt93x1w8g5.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
