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Demographic Categories in Sociolinguistic Studies of US Latino Communities[Note 7. The choice of terms to refer to the Hispanic ...]
Author(s) -
Bayley Robert
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/lnc3.12116
Subject(s) - superordinate goals , ethnic group , coding (social sciences) , linguistics , identity (music) , diversity (politics) , sociology , psychology , social psychology , social science , anthropology , aesthetics , philosophy
This article provides an overview of the diversity of Latino communities in the USA and examines how issues of ethnicity and identity have been treated in representative recent studies. The article offers suggestions for coding information about identity and ethnic orientation that will enable researchers to go beyond overly general and often contested superordinate terms. Finally, the article shows how newer methods of statistical analysis provide the means for a more fine‐grained coding.