Document Type
Article
Article Version
Post-print
Publication Date
6-2019
Abstract
This article examines the impact of the anglicizing language policies implemented after the annexation of the U.S. borderlands to the United States on language use by describing the language and translation practices of Spanish-language newspapers published in the U.S. borderlands across different sociohistorical periods from 1808 to 1930. Sixty Hispanic-American newspapers (374 issues) from 1808 to 1980 were selected for analysis. Despite aggressive anglicizing legislation that caused a societal shift of language use from Spanish into English in most borderland states after the annexation, the current study suggests that the newspapers resisted assimilation by adhering to the Spanish language in the creation of original content and in translation.
Publication Title
Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association
Repository Citation
Jiménez, Laura Gasca; Álvarez, Maira E.; and Fernández, Sylvia, "Language and translation practices of Spanish-language newspapers published in the U.S. borderlands between 1808 and 1930" (2019). Modern Languages & Literature Faculty Publications. 52.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/modernlanguagesandliterature-facultypubs/52
Published Citation
Gasca Jiménez, Laura, Maira E. Álvarez, and Sylvia Fernández. "Language and translation practices of Spanish-language newspapers published in the US borderlands between 1808 and 1930." Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association 14, no. 2 (2019): 218-242. https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00039.gas.
Peer Reviewed
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