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  • 13 - Asian American voices: language in the Asian American community

  • Edited by Edward Finegan, University of Southern California, John R. Rickford, Stanford University, California
  • Book: Language in the USA
  • Published online: 05 June 2012
  • Print publication: 24 June 2004, pp 245-267

  • Summary

    Editors' introduction

    The USA is a nation of immigrants and the children of immigrants, most of whom did not speak English when they arrived and whose adopted English will always show traces of their ancestry. Among notable groups of recent immigrants are speakers of Asian languages, with numbers large enough to sustain ancestral languages alongside English in some American communities. Asian immigrants are not new to the USA, and in this chapter Thom Huebner and Linda Uyechi describe the struggle many have faced in learning English, including “the role of language in negotiating multiple identities across cultures and generations” and “the emotion-laden burden of coping with racism and language discrimination” in the new land of promise.

    The chapter relates the history of Asian contact and immigration, from its beginnings perhaps well before Columbus to its present-day compass across the Pacific and throughout Asia. Though the term “Asian American” has become familiar, this chapter underscores the fact that “Asian American” encompasses members of a community that is “split along several dimensions: first and second waves of immigration, immigrants and refugees, Asians in Hawai'i and Asians on the mainland, different countries of origin, different generations, and different languages.” The term covers an enormously diverse “community” whose home languages are members of many language families – Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Indo- European, and Tai, in addition to Japanese and Korean, languages that are generally not recognized as having related family members. For the hugely diverse Asian American community, the authors note, “the glue that binds” is English.

  • Obituary: Charles Albert Ferguson July 6, 1921 – September 2, 1998

  • Thom Huebner
  • Journal: Language in Society / Volume 28 / Issue 3 / July 1999
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 1999, pp. 431-437
  • Print publication: July 1999
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  • With the death of Charles Albert Ferguson (“Fergie” to his friends, colleagues, and students) on September 2, 1998, in Palo Alto, California, at the age of seventy-seven, the field of sociolinguistics lost a scholar of unusual depth, breadth, integrity, and kindness.

  • SLA: Models and Issues

  • Thom Huebner
  • Journal: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics / Volume 9 / March 1988
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2008, pp. 3-22
  • Print publication: March 1988

  • Unlike first language acquisition, second language acquisition [SLA] is a phenomenon neither universally experienced nor uniformly successful. Yet an assumption underlying all of SLA research is that the phenomenon, whether aided by formal instruction or not, is guided by certain principles. The discovery of these principles is the over-riding goal of SLA research.

  • Linguistic Systems and Linguistic Change in an Interlanguage

  • Thom Huebner
  • Journal: Studies in Second Language Acquisition / Volume 6 / Issue 1 / Fall 1983
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2008, pp. 33-53
  • Print publication: Fall 1983

  • The question central to interlanguage research, and all language acquisition research, is ‘How do acquirers internalize linguistic patterns of the target language?’ Much research addressing this question is based on the hypothesis that the language of the second language acquirers represents a systematic linguistic continuum. The interlanguage hypothesis suggests two questions which are prerequisite to answering the central question cited above: 1) What are the form-function relationships of the interlanguage? and 2) How do those form-function relationships change as the acquirer revises the interlanguage?

    The current paper reports on a one-year longitudinal analysis of the interlanguage of an adult acquiring English without formal instruction (Huebner 1983). It presents observations of the form-function relationships in the early interlanguage and of the ways these relationships change over the twelve months of the study.

    It describes features of the early interlanguage related to presupposed-asserted information, topic-comment organization of information, and referentiality, which express both pragmatic/discourse functions and semantico-grammatical case functions (Pfaff 1982) in the interlanguage, and examines the changing functions of these forms with attention to the role of set phrases, quasi-spontaneous speech, and processes of neutralization in the changing interlanguage system. The paper concludes by proposing two ways in which hypotheses may be neutralized and speculates that these two processes are reciprocally linked.