Author, as appears in the article.: Alarcón A; Heyman J

Department: Gestió d'Empreses

URV's Author/s: Alarcón Alarcón, Amado

Keywords: Rebordering Markets Language institutionalization El paso Debordering

Abstract: Recent sociolinguistic research adds new economic sectors, such as the service economy, to the list of key forces that shape unequal, dynamic and complex diglossia (e.g., Spanish in the United States). However, little detailed work has been done on the linguistic characteristics of specific labor sectors in the wider contexts of debordering and rebordering. In this article we develop in depth the market mechanisms and institutional constraints that shape the valuation and social expansion of Spanish in El Paso, Texas the study finds that in sectors with low skills and low linguistic intensity, linguistic management policies are effectively Spanish- only. However, as skills increase and there is a greater need for regulated communication in the occupational role, more constraints are observed on how Spanish functions in work use and professional careers. © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston.

Thematic Areas: Linguistics and language Linguistics Linguística e literatura Letras / linguística Language and linguistics Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Astronomia / física

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 16133668

Author's mail: amado.alarcon@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0003-4640-2681

Record's date: 2023-03-05

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2013-0090/html

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: International Journal Of The Sociology Of Language. (227): 101-117

APA: Alarcón A; Heyman J (2014). From spanish-only cheap labor to stratified bilingualism: Language, markets and institutions on the US-Mexico border. International Journal Of The Sociology Of Language, (227), 101-117. DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2013-0090

Article's DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2013-0090

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2014

Publication Type: Journal Publications