Spanglish,Bilingualism, Culture and Identity in Latino Children’s Literature |
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| Authors: | Sharon Chappell Christian Faltis |
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| Institution: | (1) Arizona State University, Tempe, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the ways in which Latino children’s literature portrays cultural models of bilingualism and identity affiliations
based on language and cultural practices. We focus attention the messages in seven children’s books about practices of and
attitudes toward Spanglish, standard Spanish, and individual and societal bilingualism. In addition, we analyze how characters
construct their cross-cultural identit(ies), based their language use and engagement in local and transnational cultural themes.
Using assertions based on cultural model analyses, we show how portrayals evident in these books inform and are informed by
larger cultural models of being bilingual and belonging to Latino bilingual communities in the U.S. |
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| Keywords: | Bilingualism Cross-cultural identity cultural models Latino children’ s literature Spanglish Transnationalism |
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