Episodes
Published 09/20/13
Zentella is one of the foremost researchers in what she has coined "anthro-political linguistics." Her research focuses on the study of U.S. Latino varieties of Spanish and English, Spanglish, and language socialization in Latino families, and is a respected critic of the linguistic profiling facilitated by English-only laws and anti- bilingual education legislation. Her current projects include a remapping of language, identity, and the border by college students who live in Tijuana, Mexico...
Published 09/20/13