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Ana Celia Zentella

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Ana Celia Zentella's Degrees

PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Masters Anthropology Columbia University
Bachelors Anthropology Brooklyn College

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According to Wikipedia, Ana Celia Zentella is an American linguist known for her "anthro-political" approach to linguistic research and expertise on multilingualism, linguistic diversity, and language intolerance, especially in relation to U.S. Latino languages and communities. She is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

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Ana Celia Zentella's Published Works

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Spanish in New York: Language Contact, Dialectal Leveling, and Structural Continuity (2012) (209)
Invited Forum: Bridging the “Language Gap” (2015) (139)
Lexical Leveling in four New York City Spanish Dialects: Linguistic and Social Factors. (1990) (90)
The Hispanophobia of the Official English movement in the US (1997) (85)
Returned migration, language, and identity: Puerto Rican bilinguals in dos worlds/two mundos (1990) (78)
Spanish in New York (2002) (47)
The "Chiquitafication" of U.S. Latinos and Their Languages, OR Why We Need an Anthropolitical Linguistics. (1995) (42)
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Bilingual Code Switching (1990) (39)
“José, can you see?” (2003) (35)
TWB (Talking while Bilingual): Linguistic profiling of Latina/os, and other linguistic torquemadas (2014) (31)
Language in the USA: Spanish in the Northeast (2004) (26)
Introducing the Language Gap (2017) (23)
“Limpia, fija y da esplendor”: Challenging the Symbolic Violence of the Royal Spanish Academy (2017) (23)
Spanish and English in contact in the United States: The Puerto Rican experience (1982) (19)
Latino Youth at Home, in their Communities, and in School (1997) (17)
Homegirls: Language and cultural practice among Latina youth gangs (2009) (14)
Language Policy/Planning and U.S. Colonialism: The Puerto Rican Thorn in English-Only’s Side (1999) (13)
15. Apuntes preliminares sobre el contacto lingüístico y dialectal en el uso pronominal del español en Nueva York (2007) (13)
The Fate of Spanish in the United States: The Puerto Rican Experience (1985) (10)
Transfronterizo Talk: Conflicting Constructions of Bilingualism on the US-Mexico Border (2009) (9)
Generational differences in pronominal usage in Spanish reflecting language and dialect contact in a bilingual setting (2010) (9)
Problematic Language Assessment in the US Census (2007) (8)
Language in the US Census: Problems and Progress (2010) (7)
Language Contact in Spanish in New York (2012) (7)
Bllinguals and Borders! California's Transfronteriz@s and Competing Constructions of Bilingualism (2013) (5)
Language Minorities and the National Commitment to Foreign Language Competency: Resolving the Contradiction (1986) (5)
LatinUs* and linguistics (2018) (5)
Ethnolinguistic pluralism as scapegoat: the lessons of the Canadian experience for US latinos (1994) (4)
Who Supports Official English, and Why?: The Influence of Social Variables and Questionnaire Methodology (1990) (4)
The Gap that Won't Be Filled (2016) (4)
Continuity, Language Contact, and Dialectal Leveling in Spanish in New York (2012) (2)
Comprar Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York | Ana Celia Zentella | 9781557864079 | Wiley (2008) (2)
Aquí no se cogen las guaguas (2019) (1)
Anti Latinu/Anti Spanish Attacks and Anthro‐Political Linguistics (2019) (1)
San Diego's Multilingual Heritage: Challenging Erasure (2009) (1)
Language Policy/Planning and U.S. Colonialism (1999) (1)
Applied Linguistic Anthropology: Balancing Social Science with Social Change (2021) (1)
Educational Linguistics (1985) (0)
Concluding RemarksSpanish in New York: AquÍ se habla EspaÑOL (2012) (0)
Internal Evidence for Continuity and Leveling (2012) (0)
Individual Differences in Growing Up Bilingual (2017) (0)
The Pronoun Rate: Delineating New York Latino Communities (2012) (0)
Interviews and Transcripts (2012) (0)
A Model for Implementing Bilingual Education (1989) (0)
The Envelope of Variation and the Formation of the Corpus (2012) (0)
Internal Evidence for Continuity and Contact (2012) (0)
A Multivariate Approach to Continuity, Contact, and Leveling (2012) (0)
The Grammars of Bilinguals in New York (2012) (0)
Dialectal Leveling in Spanish in New York (2012) (0)
BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS (2004) (0)
Language Situations (1990) (0)

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