The Social and Demographic Context of Language Use in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5619986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gillian Stevens (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171 |
| Publication date | 1992-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2096203 |
| OpenAlex | W2051098463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 102 |
| References cited | 20 |
In this study I investigate the relative frequency with which Americans with a non-English first language use English....The analysis...shows that a respondents characteristics--education age nativity length of residence in the United States if foreign born and marital status--strongly influence the relative frequency with which the childhood language is used vis-a-vis English. The analysis also shows that...the size and degree of geographic segregation of the language groups affect group members patterns of language use. The effect of a spouses native language is also considered. (EXCERPT
Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Citizenship status, heritage language use, and cultural attitudes
Cost of Being a Mexican Immigrant and Being a Mexican Non-Citizen in California and Texas
Glottalizing at word junctures
The missing link in Spanish heritage trill production
What Are the Success Factors of Multilingual Families? Relationships Between Linguistic Attitudes and Community Dynamics
How First Is First? Revisiting Language Maintenance and Shift and the Meaning of L1/L2 in Three Case Studies
English Skills, Earnings, and the Occupational Sorting of Mexican Americans along the U.S.-Mexico Border
Heritage speakers’ use of prosodic strategies in focus marking in Spanish
“Language and Migration”
Durable Ethnicity
Age at immigration and second language proficiency among foreign-born adults
Spanish Maintenance among English-Speaking Latino Youth
Marital Patterns and Use of Mother Tongue at Home among Native-Born Asian Americans
English Gain vs. Spanish Loss? Language Assimilation among Second-Generation Latinos in Young Adulthood
Determinants of Second Language Proficiency among Refugees in the Netherlands
Combining Language Training and Work Experience for Refugees with Low-Literacy Levels
Understanding the Living Arrangements of Latino Immigrants
From Russian to Hebrew via HebRush
Incorporating Immigrants
German Language Acquisition of Refugee Children—The Role of Preschools and Language Instruction
The acculturation tendencies of Filipino migrant workers in New Zealand
Israeli‐Jewish immigrants in Germany
The impact of socioeconomic status and population size on the use of the Tatar language at home
European movers’ language use patterns at home
Diversity in America
The Economic Value of Bilingualism for Asians and Hispanics 1
Gender Differences in Language Acquisition and Employment Consequences among Southeast Asian Refugees in Canada
Do Ethnic Enclaves Benefit or Harm Linguistically Isolated Employees
Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration
In the Ear of the Listener
The Spatial Association between U.S. Immigrant Residential Concentration and Environmental Hazards
English Language Proficiency among the Foreign Born in the United States, 1980–2007
Contexts of English Language Use among Immigrants to the United States
Immigrant Incorporation and Political Participation in the United States
A Dynamic Approach to the Determinants of Immigrants’ Language Proficiency
English-Language Proficiency among Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs in the United States, 1980–2000
The Social Consequences of Participating in the Ethnic Economy
Household Context, Generational Status, and English Proficiency among the Children of African Immigrants in the United States
Determinants of English Proficiency among Mexican Migrants to the United States
English Use Among Older Bilingual Immigrants in Linguistically Concentrated Neighborhoods
The Impact of Social Security on Return Migration Among Latin American Elderly in the US
Selection, context, or both? The English fluency of Mexican immigrants in the American Midwest and Southwest
Dynamics of Spanish-Language Neighborhoods in Chicago and Atlanta
Language shift among adolescent ethnic German immigrants
Heritage language maintenance and loss among the children of Eastern European immigrants in the USA
Transnational language survival
A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning1
A century of U.S. censuses and the language characteristics of immigrants
Only English by the third generation? Loss and preservation of the mother tongue among the grandchildren of contemporary immigrants
English fluency of the US immigrants
Family Context and Spanish‐Language Use
Are They Acculturating? Europe's Immigrants and Gender Egalitarianism
Structural and Individual Covariates of English Language Proficiency
A Critical Mass Model of Bilingualism among U.S.-Born Hispanics
Power, Status, and Hawai'i Creole English
Minority Language Proficiency of Adolescent Immigrant Children in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Learning the Language of a New Country
English Acquisition and Japanese Language Maintenance Among Japanese‐American Youth
A Desire to Return to the Country of Birth as a Function of Language Preference
English Acquisition by Immigrants to the United States at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Local dialect proficiency and migrants’ identity integration
Language Skills and Status Attainment in Taiwan
Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration
Why Islam is like Spanish
Variation Among Siblings in the Use of a Non–English Language
Language acquisition, ethnicity and social integration among former Soviet immigrants of the 1990s in Israel
An Analysis of English-Language Proficiency among U.S. Immigrants
The Persistent Connection Between Language-of-Interview and Latino Political Opinion
English‐Language Assistance Programs, English‐Skill Acquisition, and the Academic Progress of High School Language Minority Students
Language identity, linguistic diversity and political cleavages
The language of conflict
Language acquisition of recently arrived immigrants in England, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands
Latinos, Poverty, and the Underclass
An Albanian Ethnolect of Modern Greek? Testing the Waters Perceptually
Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis
Ethnic Identification and Its Consequences for Measuring Inequality in Mexico
Multilingualism and mismatching
Factors influencing the fertility choices of child immigrants in Canada
Language acquisition as the main vehicle of social integration
Socio-Demographic Determinants of Language Transition among the Children of French- and Spanish-Caribbean Immigrants in the US
But do they speak it? The intergenerational transmission of home-country language in migrant families in France
Language Proficiency among Post-1990 Immigrants in Israel
In Search of the New Second Generation
Residential Patterns across Generations of New Immigrant Groups
Minority Language Use among Grandchildren in Multigenerational Households
Language Proficiency among New Immigrants
Spousal Characteristics and Language Use at Home
Discrete-Choice Logit Models
Linguistic Integration and Immigrant Health
Language Proficiency and Usage Among Immigrants in the Netherlands
Kinship, heritage, and ethnic choice
Destination-Language Proficiency in Cross-National Perspective
The conditional relationship between English language proficiency and earnings among US immigrants
What happened to familial acculturation
Contexts for bilingualism among US-born Latinos
The intergenerational transmission of Australian Indigenous languages
Beyond English proficiency
Linguistic isolation in the home and community
Ethnic concentration in the neighbourhood and majority and minority language
At the intersection of self and other
The new chosen people
Ethnic patterns in American cities.
Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
Language Shift in the United States
Institutional Completeness of Ethnic Communities and the Personal Relations of Immigrants
Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics
The Status of the Spanish Language in the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Factors affecting the survival of linguistic minorities
Ecological aspects of language contact or how to investigate linguistic minorities
The new census question about ancestry
A statistical model for the analysis of ordinal level dependent variables
The structuring of Hispanic ethnicity
Bilingualism
The mass media and the retention of Spanish by Chicanos
Ethnic mother-tongue maintenance among Greek Orthodox Americans
Anglicization in the United States
Ethnolinguistic identity theory
Bilingualism and bilingual education
Linguistic Intermarriage in the United States
The Social Origins of the Cuban Enclave Economy of Miami
| Unique citing works | 102 |
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| Citations per year | 3,09 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 100 |