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This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics. Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguistics Highlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theory Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field to present the very latest perspectives and discussions of key issues Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist approaches, Spanish and its importance in the U.S., language planning, and other topics focused on the social aspects of Spanish Includes several varieties of Spanish, reflecting the rich diversity of dialects spoken in the Americas and Spain

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Author:   Manuel Diaz-Campos (Indiana University, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.234kg
ISBN:  

9781119108917

ISBN 10:   1119108918
Pages:   816
Publication Date:   04 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures viii List of Tables xi Notes on Contributors xv Introduction 1 Manuel Díaz-Campos I Phonological Variation 7 1 Laboratory approaches to sound variation and change 9 Laura Colantoni 2 V ariationist Approaches: External Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology 36 Antonio Medina-Rivera 3 Internal Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology 54 Francisco Moreno-Fernández 4 Socio-phonological variation in Latin American Spanish 72 John M. Lipski 5 Sociophonological variation and change in Spain 98 José Antonio Samper Padilla II Morphosyntactic variation 121 6 Variationist Approaches to Spanish Morphosyntax: Internal and External Factors 123 Scott A. Schwenter 7 Variation and grammaticalization 148 Rena Torres Cacoullos 8 Morphosyntactic variation in Spanish-speaking Latin America 168 Paola Bentivoglio and Mercedes Sedano 9 Morphosyntactic variation in Spain 187 María José Serrano III Language, the individual, and the society 205 10 Aging, Age, and Sociolinguistics 207 Richard Cameron 11 Gender and variation: Word-final /s/ in men’s and women’s speech in Puerto Rico’s western highlands 230 Jonathan Holmquist 12 Forms of address: The effect of the context 244 Diane R. Uber 13 Becoming a member of the speech community: Learning Socio-phonetic Variation in child language 263 Manuel Díaz-Campos 14 The relationship between historical linguistics and sociolinguistics 283 Donald N. Tuten and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero 15 The acquisition of variation in second language Spanish: How to identify and catch a moving target 303 Kimberly Geeslin IV Spanish in Contact 321 16 Spanish in Contact with Quechua 323 Anna María Escobar 17 Spanish in Contact with Guaraní 353 Shaw n. Gynan 18 Spanish in Contact with Catalan 374 José Luis Blas Arroyo 19 Spanish in Contact with Portuguese: the Case of Barranquenho 395 J. Clancy Clements, Patrícia Amaral, and Ana R. Luís 20 Spanish in Contact with Haitian Creole 418 Luis A. Ortiz López 21 Palenque (Colombia): Multilingualism in an Extraordinary Social and Historical Context 446 Armin Schwegler 22 Spanish in Contact with Arabic 473 Lotfi Sayahi V Spanish in the United States, Heritage Language, L2 Spanish 491 23 Spanish in the United States: Bilingual Discourse Markers 493 Lourdes Torres 24 Functional Adaptation and Conceptual Convergence in the Analysis of Language Contact in the Spanish of Bilingual Communities in New York 504 Ricardo Otheguy 25 Code-switching among US Latinos 530 Almeida Jacqueline Toribio 26 Language and Social Meaning in Bilingual Mexico and the United States 553 Norma Mendoza-Denton and Bryan James Gordon 27 Intrafamilial Dialect Contact 579 Kim Potowski 28 Heritage Language Students: The Case of Spanish 598 Guadalupe Valdés and Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci 29 Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos 623 Jorge Porcel 30 Mockery and Appropriation of Spanish in White Spaces: Perceptions of Latinos in the United States 646 Adam Schwartz VI Language Policy/Planning, Language Attitudes and Ideology 665 31 Planning Spanish: Nationalizing, Minoritizing and Globalizing Performances 667 Ofelia García 32 Bilingual Education in Latin America 686 Serafín M. Coronel-Molina and Megan Solon 33 V ariation and Identity in Spain 704 Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy 34 V ariation and Identity in the Americas 728 Mercedes Niño-Murcia 35 Linguistic Imperialism: Who Owns Global Spanish? 747 Clare Mar-Molinero and Darren Paffey Index 765

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Manuel Díaz-Campos is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He is editor of Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (2006) and author of Introducción a la sociolingüistica hispánica (Wiley, 2014).

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