Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction. Spanish of the U.S. Southwest a language in transition / Susana Rivera-Mills and Daniel J. Villa -- Section I. Historical aspects of southwest Spanish: Documenting the past, envisioning the future / Glenn Martinez -- Varieties of Spanish in post-annexation California (1848-1900) / María Irene Moyna -- From voice to print: language and social change in New Mexico, 1880 - 1912 / Arturo Fernández-Gibert -- A historical perspective on contemporary New Mexico Spanish archaisms / Juan Antonio Trujillo -- Section II. Loss and maintenance of southwest Spanish: Introduction. Whiter southwest Spansih? Issues in the assessment of maintenance or loss / Garland D. Bills -- Gender and Spanish-language maintenance among U.S.-born Hispanic children in the southwest / Marie T. Mora -- Spanish-as-threat ideology and the sociocultural context of Spanish in South Texas / Tonya E. Wolford and Phillip M. Carter -- The state (s) of Spanish in the southwest: a comparative study of language maintenance and socioeconomic variables / Devin L. Jenkins -- Acculturation and communicative need in the process of language shift: the case of an Arizona community / Susana V. Rivera-Mills -- Section III. Descriptive studies of Southwest Spanish: Introduction. Description and beyond: the southwest at the center / John M. Lipski -- Variable YO expression in New Mexico: English influence? / Rena Torres Cacoullos and Catherine E. Travis -- Passive expressions as isogloss between new Mexican and Californian Spanish dialect areas / Patricia Gubitosi -- An analysis of the motivations for borrowing in the Spanish of the New Mexico / Jens H. Clegg -- Y nos vamos patrás: back to an analysis of a supposed "calque" / Daniel J. Villa -- Section IV. Language attitudes and identity issues: Introduction. Ethnicity and language: identity issues in the U.S. southwest / Almeida Jacqueline Toribio -- "I am not Mexican... pero soy Mexicano": linguistic context of labeling among mexican americans in Texas. Julie A. Dowling -- Todavía decimos "nosotros (los) mexicanos": construction of identity labels among nuevos mexicanos. María Dolores Gonzales -- Attitudes toward spanish language variation among latinas living in western Colorado / Tyler K. Anderson -- Section V. Language politics and issues in Spanish heritage speaker pedagogy: Introduction. The sociopolitics of heritage language education / Jennifer Leeman -- Research, responsability and repression: anti-bilingualism in Arizona / Holly R. Cashman -- Different words for different contexts: intra-speaker variation in Spanish as a heritage language / Ana Sánchez-Muñoz -- Reducing spanish on the margins of empire: a historical perspective on ideologies and ecologies of language education in Sonoma County, California / Robert W. Train.