3. Language in U.S. Latinx Communities

phillip carter is professor of linguistics and English at Florida International University. He is coauthor of Languages in the World: How History, Culture, and Politics Shape Language (with Julie Tetel Andersen; Wiley Blackwell, 2016) and author of dozens of articles and chapters addressing the politics, perceptions, and structural aspects of language diversity in the United States. Email: [email protected].

salvatore callesano is an assistant professor of Hispanic linguistics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in the sociolinguistics of U.S. Latinx communities, and his work addresses language variation, perceptual dialectology, and linguistic discrimination, both in community-based contexts and on social media. He has published in journals such as Language and Communication, International Journal of Bilingualism, and Latino Studies. Email: [email protected].

lydda lópez valdez is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Miami and specializes in Hispanic linguistics. Her research addresses linguistic variation and identity construction among heritage speakers in the United States. She works to develop multidisciplinary approaches to the study of sociolinguistics in the global era. Email: [email protected].