Adolfo Ortega Caló Orbis: Semiotic Aspects of a Chicano Language Variety. Peter Lang, 1991. American University Studies, Series XIII Linguistics, Vol. 21. 0820415421 xxxi/261 pages. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Upper outside corner of title page has been excised. Interior is clean and bright. ""Caló Orbis" examines a Chicano language variety from a historical, social, ideological, and theoretical framework. It gathers information on how the urban Chicano often reduces his/her experience into thematic contents of family, home, employment, education, and religion. This book takes the reader into a semiotic point of view in order to bring a deeper awareness of the symbolic activity between language style and the speaker's attitude toward the urban experience. The perspective maintained is epistemological in the broadest sense, in that the inquiry includes lexical, poetical, and philosophical notions. Bilingual educations, instructors of ethnic programs, linguists, and scholars of the Spanish language will value this volume."