Sociolinguistic Change Across the Spanish-Speaking World (eBook, PDF)

Case Studies in Honor of Anna Maria Escobar
Redaktion: Potowski, Kim

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays presents cutting-edge research in Hispanic sociolinguistics. They include studies on language variation and change, contact varieties, language use, perception, and attitudes and focus on language varieties such as Peruvian Spanish, Mexican Spanish on the U.S. - Mexican border and in the Midwest, and two Peninsular varieties (in the Basque country and in Catalonia). This book is a Festschrift in honor of Anna María Escobar and her twenty-five years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781453914090
• Artikelnr.: 43971505

Autorenporträt

Kim Potowski (PhD in Hispanic linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States, including books about language use in a dual immersion school and teaching heritage speakers. Her current work explores features of Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish in Chicago, as well as mixed Latino «MexiRican» language and identity. With a Fulbright grant, she worked in Oaxaca, Mexico, studying the features of English and Spanish and the schooling experiences of «transnational» youth who have returned to Mexico from the United States. Talia Bugel (PhD in Hispanic linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Her research focuses on language attitudes and language policy in the context of teaching Spanish and Portuguese as foreign languages in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Her work has been published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Language Policy, Latin American Research Review, Hispania, and Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: María del Puy Ciriza: Family transmission and social networks: Insights on a Basque Spanish case - Susana de los Heros/Margarita Jara: Exploring the functions of 'ASÍ' in Peruvian Spanish - Claudia Holguín Mendoza: Pragmatic functions and cultural communicative needs in the use of innovative quotatives among Mexican bilingual youth - Liliana Sánchez: Convergence in feature mapping: Evidentiality, aspect and nominalizations in Quechua-Spanish bilinguals - Justin Davidson: Intervocalic fricative voicing in the Spanish of Barcelona: Considerations for contact-induced sociophonetic innovation - Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza: Son importantes los dos: Language use and attitudes among wives of Mexican profesionistas on the U.S.-Mexico border - Isabel Velázquez: Intergenerational perceptions of Spanish use and viability in first-generation midwestern Latino households - Zsuzsanna Fagyal: Sociolinguistic variation and pluricentricity: Postface to Case Studies in Honor of Anna María Escobar.