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
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
