1st Edition
Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact Sociolinguistic Case Studies
Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistic Case Studies provides an original and modern analysis of the development of Spanish and its contact with other languages using a sociolinguistic framework from both synchronic and diachronic angles.
Split into three sections, (i) Border speech communities, (ii) Outcomes and perceptions in situations of language and dialect contact and (iii) Contact and alternation: social boundaries of language switching, this collection offers new perspectives in the field of language contact and change. Each chapter presents an original study detailing the social factors that have shaped contact varieties of Spanish, providing principal arguments and theories about language use, contact, and change, as well as guided topics for discussion.
With its wide scope, this book is a landmark in language interaction processes and studies, and will be a valuable reference for educators, scholars, language professionals and students with an interest in the vitality of the Spanish language in contact with other languages.
List of maps and figures XX
List of tables XX
Acknowledgments XX
List of Abbreviations XX
List of Contributors XX
Chapter Abstracts XX
Introduction XX
Section I
Border Speech Communities
Chapter One 1
Languages and borders: case studies from the U.S. Southwest
Glenn Martinez
Chapter Two XX
Linguistic encounters in Texas
Manuel Gutiérrez
Chapter Three XX
Bilingualism in California: the case of Los Angeles
Ana Sánchez Muñoz
Chapter Four XX
Attitudes and language behavior at the Brazilian-Uruguayan
border
Göz Kaufmann
Section II
Outcomes and perceptions in situations
of language and dialect contact
Chapter Five XX
Languages in contact: pidginization and creolization, Spanish in the Caribbean
John Lipski
Chapter Six XX
Dominican-Haitian contact in Hispaniola: historical and sociolinguistic
perspectives
Luis Ortiz López
Chapter Seven XX
Languages in contact: the case of Colombia
Armin Schwegler and Alejandro Correa
Section III
contact and alternation:
social boundaries of language switching
Chapter Eight XX
Have monolingualism and monoculturalism been overcome in Mexico?
Mariadelaluz Matus- Mendoza
Chapter Nine XX
Languages in contact in Paraguay: cultural fusion in a unique sociolinguistic situation
Haralambos Symeonidis
Chapter Ten XX
Language contact and the indigenous languages of Uruguay
Yliana Rodríguez
Chapter Eleven XX
Languages in contact: grammaticalization and complexification in Northern Andean
gerundianismo
Kathleen Guerra
Chapter Twelve XX
Spain's language policies and the discourse of contact linguistics: a diachronic approach
Eva Núñez Méndez
Index of subjects XX
Biography
Eva Núñez Méndez is professor of Spanish linguistics at Portland State University, where she has been part of the Dept. of World Languages and Literatures since 2002. Her research focuses primarily on linguistics (phonetics, syntax, and the history of the Spanish language) and on applied linguistics (language variation, text analysis, and translation). Her books include Diachronic applications of Hispanic linguistics (2016), Fundamentals of the history of the Spanish language (2012), Fundamentals of Spanish phonetics and phonology (2012, 2005), and Troilus and Cressida: a bilingual edition (2008).
