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Use of Deixis as Evidence of Symbolic Transnationalism among 1.5- and Second-Generation Miami Cubans
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Yakushkina, Maria – Hispania, 2022
In a highly global world, migrant communities navigate multiple cultural and linguistic contexts. To understand these cross-cultural ties and bridge the fields of linguistics and transnationalism, the present study provides detailed linguistic analysis of the interrelation between heritage language use and symbolic transnationalism among the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Cubans, Hispanic Americans, Foreign Countries
A Quantitative Approach to Heritage Language Use and Symbolic Transnationalism. Evidence from the Cuban-American Population in Miami
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Yakushkina, Maria – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
In a present-day global world, immigrant communities manage multiple cultural and linguistic contexts. To better understand these cross-cultural connections, and bridge the fields of linguistics and transnationalism, the present study analyzes the interconnection between language use and symbolic transnationalism among heritage speakers of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Cubans, Biculturalism, Spanish
Language Use and Identity in the Cuban Community in Russia
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Yakushkina, Maria; Olson, Daniel J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
A significant body of research has begun to explore the association between language and identity, a relationship that becomes more complex when considering multilingual communities. Important for this field, a number of studies have examined the interrelation between language and identity in the Cuban population in the USA, a case in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Identification, Ethnicity