Daniel J Villa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5043400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel J Villa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel J |
| FAMILY NAME | Villa |
| SIGNATURE | VILLA D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Mexico State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
U.S. Spanish and the Standard Language Myth
The Spanish spoken in the U.S. contains certain elements from English due to the sustained sociocultural contact between these two languages. Unfortunately, it is for this very reason that many monolingual Spanish speakers (and even some bilinguals) denigrate bilingual varieties of U.S. Spanish, which they see as impure (Mata 2023; Rangel et al. 2015). This negative view of U.S. Spanish is common among “journalists, translators and educators,” as…
La nueva frontera: Spanish-Speaking Populations in Central Washington
Washington State, demographically speaking, represents the northernmost boundary, la nueva frontera , of what might now be called the Spanish speaking West. Previously, Spanish speakers in the West were concentrated mostly in the Southwest. However, in recent years the Hispanic population of the U.S. has steadily grown, with the result that it forms the largest minority group in the nation, extending into areas that traditionally have not had sig…
The Genesis of Traditional New Mexican Spanish: The Emergence of a Unique Dialect in the Americas
The origin of New World Spanish (NWS) is often identified as an original leveled dialect that arose during the earliest moments of Spanish arrival and then spread throughout the Americas. One common denominator in the available accounts of dialect contact and koinéization in NWS is the fact that such studies usually attempt to encompass its evolution as a single process. Perhaps as a consequence of such analytical approaches, little or no referen…
Spanish maintenance and loss in the U.S. Southwest: History in the making
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An integrated multi-generational model for language maintenance and shift: The case of Spanish in the Southwest
Many researchers investigating the maintenance and loss of non-English languages in the U.S. base their work on fairly homogeneous language groups, those who have immigrated here during a relatively restricted period of time. The European-origin migrations during the early decades of the twentieth century represent these types of language communities. However, Spanish is not strictly an immigrant language when compared to other non-English, non-i…
Language shift and maintenance among the children of immigrants in the U.S: Evidence in the Census for Spanish speakers and other language minorities
For over thirty years, research on Spanish in the U.S. has demonstrated an inexorable loss of the language among Spanish speaking populations. This study shows, however, that analyses of 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census data, using an innovative approach known as a synthetic cohort analysis , reveal a high degree of transmission of Spanish from first generation to second generation speakers. For the purpose of tracking reported language use of in…
Language Instrumentality in Southern New Mexico: Implications for the Loss of Spanish in the Southwest
Viral connectors are key components of the life cycle of bacteriophages and other viral systems. They participate in procapsid assembly, and they are instrumental in DNA packaging and release. Connector proteins build hollow cylindrical dodecamers that show an overall morphological similarity among different viral systems including a remarkable conserved domain in the central part of the protein. These domains build the wall of the channel formin…
The Sanitizing of U.S. Spanish in Academia
The rapidly increasing number of Spanish speakers in the United States has resulted in increased national linguistic tensions. Groups such as U.S. English aim to restrict the use of all non‐English languages in general, and Spanish in particular, in certain public domains. At the same time, another group, which includes a nucleus of language scholars, is engaging in efforts to change or suppress the use of U.S. Spanish, particularly in the domain…
Choosing a “Standard” Variety of Spanish for the Instruction of Native Spanish Speakers in the U.S
Many Spanish for Native Speakers (SNS) instructional approaches are based on the idea that there exist invariable spoken and written “standards” of the language that are preferable over other varieties and that will benefit students when acquired. However, such invariable varieties of any language do not exist, and thus a decision must be made as to which dialect and written variety will be used in SNS instruction. This decision is political in n…
Choosing a “Standard” Variety of Spanish for the Instruction of Native Spanish Speakers in the U.S
Many Spanish for Native Speakers (SNS) instructional approaches are based on the idea that there exist invariable spoken and written “standards” of the language that are preferable over other varieties and that will benefit students when acquired. However, such invariable varieties of any language do not exist, and thus a decision must be made as to which dialect and written variety will be used in SNS instruction. This decision is political in n…
The Sanitizing of U.S. Spanish in Academia
The rapidly increasing number of Spanish speakers in the United States has resulted in increased national linguistic tensions. Groups such as U.S. English aim to restrict the use of all non‐English languages in general, and Spanish in particular, in certain public domains. At the same time, another group, which includes a nucleus of language scholars, is engaging in efforts to change or suppress the use of U.S. Spanish, particularly in the domain…
Choosing a “Standard” Variety of Spanish for the Instruction of Native Spanish Speakers in the U.S
Many Spanish for Native Speakers (SNS) instructional approaches are based on the idea that there exist invariable spoken and written “standards” of the language that are preferable over other varieties and that will benefit students when acquired. However, such invariable varieties of any language do not exist, and thus a decision must be made as to which dialect and written variety will be used in SNS instruction. This decision is political in n…
The Sanitizing of U.S. Spanish in Academia
The rapidly increasing number of Spanish speakers in the United States has resulted in increased national linguistic tensions. Groups such as U.S. English aim to restrict the use of all non‐English languages in general, and Spanish in particular, in certain public domains. At the same time, another group, which includes a nucleus of language scholars, is engaging in efforts to change or suppress the use of U.S. Spanish, particularly in the domain…
Language Instrumentality in Southern New Mexico: Implications for the Loss of Spanish in the Southwest
Viral connectors are key components of the life cycle of bacteriophages and other viral systems. They participate in procapsid assembly, and they are instrumental in DNA packaging and release. Connector proteins build hollow cylindrical dodecamers that show an overall morphological similarity among different viral systems including a remarkable conserved domain in the central part of the protein. These domains build the wall of the channel formin…
Language shift and maintenance among the children of immigrants in the U.S: Evidence in the Census for Spanish speakers and other language minorities
For over thirty years, research on Spanish in the U.S. has demonstrated an inexorable loss of the language among Spanish speaking populations. This study shows, however, that analyses of 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census data, using an innovative approach known as a synthetic cohort analysis , reveal a high degree of transmission of Spanish from first generation to second generation speakers. For the purpose of tracking reported language use of in…
Spanish maintenance and loss in the U.S. Southwest: History in the making
Preview this article: Spanish maintenance and loss in the U.S. Southwest: History in the making, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sic.6.1.01vil-1.gif
An integrated multi-generational model for language maintenance and shift: The case of Spanish in the Southwest
Many researchers investigating the maintenance and loss of non-English languages in the U.S. base their work on fairly homogeneous language groups, those who have immigrated here during a relatively restricted period of time. The European-origin migrations during the early decades of the twentieth century represent these types of language communities. However, Spanish is not strictly an immigrant language when compared to other non-English, non-i…
The Genesis of Traditional New Mexican Spanish: The Emergence of a Unique Dialect in the Americas
The origin of New World Spanish (NWS) is often identified as an original leveled dialect that arose during the earliest moments of Spanish arrival and then spread throughout the Americas. One common denominator in the available accounts of dialect contact and koinéization in NWS is the fact that such studies usually attempt to encompass its evolution as a single process. Perhaps as a consequence of such analytical approaches, little or no referen…
La nueva frontera: Spanish-Speaking Populations in Central Washington
Washington State, demographically speaking, represents the northernmost boundary, la nueva frontera , of what might now be called the Spanish speaking West. Previously, Spanish speakers in the West were concentrated mostly in the Southwest. However, in recent years the Hispanic population of the U.S. has steadily grown, with the result that it forms the largest minority group in the nation, extending into areas that traditionally have not had sig…
U.S. Spanish and the Standard Language Myth
The Spanish spoken in the U.S. contains certain elements from English due to the sustained sociocultural contact between these two languages. Unfortunately, it is for this very reason that many monolingual Spanish speakers (and even some bilinguals) denigrate bilingual varieties of U.S. Spanish, which they see as impure (Mata 2023; Rangel et al. 2015). This negative view of U.S. Spanish is common among “journalists, translators and educators,” as…
Linguistics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Census (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)