Multilingual La La Land

Introduction






Arabic in Greater Los Angeles: Many Varieties, One Community
By Afaf Nash




Armenian in Greater Los Angeles: Negotiating Intralinguistic Diversity in a Diaspora Epicenter
By Shushan Karapetian and Hagop Gulludjian




Chinese: Multiple Varieties in a Changing Greater Los Angeles
By Ming-Hsuan Wu, Claire Hitchins Chik, and Andrew Simpson




Filipino: Language Practices and Affective Connections in Greater Los Angeles
By Nenita Pambid Domingo, Claire Hitchins Chik, and Maria Carreira




French in Greater Los Angeles: Challenges and Opportunities
By Mina Soroosh, Claire Hitchins Chik,and Fabrice Jaumont




German: The Invisible Language Minority: The Historical, Political, and Linguistic Dimensions of the German Language Landscape in Multilingual La La Land
By Britta Bothe




Hebrew and Yiddish in Greater Los Angeles: Bilingualism, Metalinguistic Communities, and Ethnolinguistic Infusion
By Sarah Bunin Benor and Netta Avineri




Japanese: Language Practices and Cultural Exposure over Multiple Generations in Greater Los Angeles
By Mary Ann Triest, Asako Hayashi Takakura,and Claire Hitchins Chik




Khmer Language Use and Presence in the Linguistic Landscape of Greater Los Angeles' Cambodia Town
By Wayne E. Wright and Virak Chan




Korean in Greater Los Angeles: Negotiation between the Individual and Ethnolinguistic Community Across Generations
By Hannah Saeyoung Lim




Languages of South Asia in Greater Los Angeles: Diversity Diversified

By Gyanam Mahajan and Claire Hitchins Chik






Persian Language Use and Vitality in Tehrangeles
By Amy Malek




Russian in Greater Los Angeles: A Changing Landscape
By Susan Kresin, Dante Matero and Susan Bauckus




Spanish: Never a Foreign Language in Greater Los Angeles
By Maria Carreira




Thai as a Diasporic Language in Greater Los Angeles
By Shoichi Iwasaki and Jenjit Gasigitamrong




Vietnamese: Language Use in Little Saigon and Other Greater Los Angeles Neighborhoods

By Natalie A. Tran, Bang Lang Do, and Claire Hitchins Chik