‘From neglect to re-discovery’: language and identity amongst Spanish migrants in the United Kingdom
‘From neglect to re-discovery’: language and identity amongst Spanish migrants in the United Kingdom
This article explores the relationship between language and identity in the context of post-war European migration as it relates to a group of Spaniards who settled permanently in Hampshire and Dorset between 1950 and 1974. Using oral history testimonies and data extracted from Spanish migrant periodicals published in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and early 1980s, the article focuses on the tension between the maintenance of the Spanish mother tongue and the acquisition of English, the majority language of the host country, arguing that a considerable language shift towards English has taken place, which may only now begin to be reversed given the increasing popularity that the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures are currently enjoying in Anglo-speaking cultural contexts.
spanish emigration, language, identity, integration, acculturation, united kingdom
205-230
Pozo Gutiérrez, Alicia
2f69a407-90b6-43fc-b7c8-66fd3e74a526
20 February 2007
Pozo Gutiérrez, Alicia
2f69a407-90b6-43fc-b7c8-66fd3e74a526
Pozo Gutiérrez, Alicia
(2007)
‘From neglect to re-discovery’: language and identity amongst Spanish migrants in the United Kingdom.
International Journal of Iberian Studies, 19 (3), .
(doi:10.1386/ijis.19.3.205_1).
Abstract
This article explores the relationship between language and identity in the context of post-war European migration as it relates to a group of Spaniards who settled permanently in Hampshire and Dorset between 1950 and 1974. Using oral history testimonies and data extracted from Spanish migrant periodicals published in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and early 1980s, the article focuses on the tension between the maintenance of the Spanish mother tongue and the acquisition of English, the majority language of the host country, arguing that a considerable language shift towards English has taken place, which may only now begin to be reversed given the increasing popularity that the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures are currently enjoying in Anglo-speaking cultural contexts.
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Published date: 20 February 2007
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spanish emigration, language, identity, integration, acculturation, united kingdom
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Local EPrints ID: 46056
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/46056
ISSN: 1364-971X
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Alicia Pozo Gutiérrez
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