Ana Celia Zentella
Ana Celia Zentella is a Puerto Rican linguist and professor emerita in the Department of Ethnic Studies the University of California, San Diego. She formerly taught at Hunter College in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies (now the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies). Zentella specializes in what she calls "anthro-political linguistics", which is a political approach to linguistic anthropology. In her words, anthropolitical linguistics "places language in its social context and acknowledges that there is no language without power. In other words, issues of power are deeply embedded in all aspects of language."[1] It stresses the value of linguistic diversity in US American culture and the legitimacy of non-standard varieties of Spanish and English.[2][1]
Zentella's work focuses on US Latinx varieties of Spanish and English, Spanglish, language socialization in Latinx families, and Spanish-English language contact in New York and at the Mexico–United States border. She is a critic of English-only and anti-bilingual education legislation.[3] Her 1997 book Growing Up Bilingual won the Book Prize of the British Association of Applied Linguistics as well as Book Award of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists of the American Anthropology Association.[3] She was named Public Intellectual of the Year in 2014 by the Latino Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association. The Borough of Manhattan declared October 30, 1997 "Doctor Ana Celia Zentella Day" in recognition of "her leading role in building appreciation for language diversity and respect for language rights"[3]
Books[edit]
- Otheguy, Ricardo and Ana Celia Zentella. (2012). Spanish in New York: Language Contact, Dialectal Leveling, and Structural Continuity. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (1997). Growing Up Bilingual. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
Other Publications[edit]
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (2016). "Spanglish: Language Politics vs el habla del pueblo." In Tamargo, Mazak and Parafita Couto, Eds. Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Carribbean and the U.S. John Benjamins.
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (2013). "Bilinguals and Borders: California's Transfronteriz@s and Competing Constructions of Bilingualism." Int'l Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, 32(2).
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (2009). Multilingual San Diego: Challenging Erasure. Journal of Southwest Linguistics.
- Otheguy, Ricardo, Ana Celia Zentella, and D. Livert. (2007). Language and dialect contact in Spanish in New York: Towards the formation of a speech community. Language, 1-33.
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (2007). Dime con quíén hablas y te diré quién eres: Linguistic (In)security and Latino Unity. In Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo, Eds. The Blackwell Companion to Latino Studies (pp. 25-39). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (Ed.). (2005). Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities. Columbia TC Press.
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (2004). A Nuyorican’s view of our history and language(s) in New York (1945-1965). In G. Haslip-Viera, A. Falcón and F. Matos Rodríguez, Eds. Boricuas in Gotham (pp. 21-36). New York: Markus Wiener.
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (2003). "José can you see": Latin@ responses to racist discourse. In Sommer, Doris (Ed.), Bilingual Aesthetics. New York: Palgrave Press.
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (2002). Latin@ Languages and Identities. Latinos! An Agenda for the 21st Century. M.Suárez-Orozco and Mariela Páez, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Zentella, Ana Celia. (2001). Language Planning/Policy and US Colonialism: The Puerto Rican Thorn in English-Only's Side. In Kees de Bot and Thomas Huebner, eds. Language Policy and Planning: Sociopolitical Perspectives. John Benjamins.
- Zentella, Ana Celia. "¿Quieren que sus hijos hablen el inglés y el español?: Un manual bilingüe / Would you like your children to speak English and Spanish?: A Bilingual Manual"
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Figueroa, Yomaira C. (January 14, 2015). "Ana Celia Zentella on Anthropolitical Linguistics, Tato Laviera, and the Power of Nuyorican Poetry". Centro Voices. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ↑ "Ana Celia Zentella Gives a Lecture on Linguistic Intolerance in the United States". Center for Research on Families, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Ana Celia Zentella". UC San Diego. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
External links[edit]
Category:Linguists from the United States Category:Anthropological linguists Category:Puerto Rican academics Category:University of California, San Diego faculty Category:Hunter College faculty Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni Category:Hunter College alumni
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