Full Description
This book explores the current state of Spanish sociolinguistics and its contribution to theories of language variation and change, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. It offers original analyses on a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields from different formal, experimental, and corpus-based standpoints. The volume is organized around six thematic sections: (i) Cutting-edge Methodologies in Sociolinguistics; (ii) Bilingualism; (iii) Language Acquisition; (iv) Phonological Variation; (v) Morpho-Syntactic Variation; and (vi) Lexical Variation. As a whole, this collection reflects an array of approaches and analyses that show how in its variation across speakers, speech communities, linguistic contexts, communicative situations, dialects, and time, the Spanish language provides an immense wealth of data to challenge accepted linguistic views and shape new theoretical proposals in the field of language variation and change. Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis represents a significant contribution to the growing field of Spanish sociolinguistics.
Contents
1. Acknowledgments; 2. Introduction (by Sessarego, Sandro); 3. Part I. Cutting-edge Methodologies in Sociolinguistics; 4. Quantitative analysis in language variation and change (by Tagliamonte, Sali A.); 5. Combining population genetics (DNA) with historical linguistics: On the African origins of Latin America's black and mulatto populations (by Schwegler, Armin); 6. Part II. Bilingualism; 7. Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish: An analytical approach to its indicators, markers, and stereotypes (by Parodi, Claudia); 8. On the tenacity of Andean Spanish: Intra-community recycling (by Lipski, John M.); 9. Spanish and Valencian in contact: A study on the linguistic landscape of Elche (by Martinez-Ibarra, Francisco); 10. Part III. Language Acquisition; 11. Children's Spanish subject pronoun expression: A developmental change in tu? (by Lapidus Shin, Naomi); 12. The role of social networks in the acquisition of a dialectal features during study abroad (by Pope, Joshua); 13. Lexical frequency and subject expression in native and non-native Spanish: A closer look at independent and mediating effects (by Linford, Bret); 14. Part IV. Phonological Variation; 15. On glottal stops in Yucatan Spanish: Language contact and dialect standardization (by Michnowicz, Jim); 16. Vowel raising and social networks in Michoacan: A sociophonetic analysis (by Barajas, Jennifer); 17. Bilingualism and aspiration: Coda /s/ reduction on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (by Chappell, Whitney); 18. Part V. Morpho-Syntactic Variation; 19. Spanish and Portuguese parallels: Impoverished number agreement as a vernacular feature of two rural dialects (by Sessarego, Sandro); 20. The tuteo of Rocha, Uruguay: Is it as stable as it seems? (by Weyers, Joseph R.); 21. A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of contact-induced changes in subject placement in the Spanish of New York City bilinguals (by Barrera-Tobon, Carolina); 22. Part VI. Lexical Variation; 23. Social factors in semantic change: A corpus-based case study of the verb afeitar 'to adorn, to apply cosmetics, to shave' (by Korfhagen, David); 24. Attitudes towards lexical Arabisms in sixteenth-century Spanish texts (by Gimenez-Eguibar, Patricia); 25. "Trabajar es en espanol, en ladino es lavorar": Lexical Accommodation in Judeo-Spanish (by Romero, Rey); 26. Index
