Author: Dennis Richard PrestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Miami Cuban perceptions of varieties of Spanish
Author: Dennis Richard PrestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
Author: Daniel LongPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027296057
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most prominent among the new approaches are studies of the salience of specific linguistic features in variety identification and assessment. As in Volume I, the reader will find in these chapters everything from the statistical treatment of the ratings of dialect attributes to studies of the actual discourses of nonlinguists discussing language variety. Dialectologists, sociolinguistics, ethnographers, and applied linguists who work in areas where language variety is a concern will appreciate the findings and methods of these studies, but social scientists of every sort who want to understand the role of language in the cultural lives of ordinary people will also find much of interest here.
Cuban Spanish Dialectology
Author: Alejandro CuzaPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626165106
Category : Sociolinguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This volume covers existing lacunae on Cuban Spanish dialectology by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and the acquisition of Cuban Spanish as a heritage language. --Jorge Guitart, professor of Spanish linguistics, University at Buffalo: The State University of New York
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
Author: Dennis Richard PrestonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781556197574
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most prominent among the new approaches are studies of the salience of specific linguistic features in variety identification and assessment. As in Volume I, the reader will find in these chapters everything from the statistical treatment of the ratings of dialect attributes to studies of the actual discourses of nonlinguists discussing language variety. Dialectologists, sociolinguistics, ethnographers, and applied linguists who work in areas where language variety is a concern will appreciate the findings and methods of these studies, but social scientists of every sort who want to understand the role of language in the cultural lives of ordinary people will also find much of interest here.
Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions
Author: Luis Alfredo Ortiz-LópezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000454584
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions brings together the most current research on linguistic perceptions of varieties of Spanish. The book includes articles from a range of expert contributors using different methodologies and looking at diverse sociolinguistic settings. Readers will gain a rich understanding of the importance of linguistic perceptions and the societal attitudes they are linked to. Readers will also gain insight into the interplay between socioeconomic groups, and educational and linguistic norms and the perception of non-standardized forms of Spanish. The volume highlights the relationship between language and social perceptions and will be of particular interest to researchers and students in Hispanic linguistics, sociophonetics, and sociolinguistics.
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
Author: Dennis R. PrestonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027298416
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk about which dialects exist and, indeed, about what attitudes they have to these varieties. Some of this leads to discussion of what they believe about language in general, or “folk linguistics”. Surprising divergences from professional results can be found. For the professional, it is intriguing to find out why and whether the folk can be wrong or whether the professional has missed something.Volume 1 of this handbook aims to provide for the field of perceptual dialectology: • a historical survey; • a regional survey, adding to the earlier preponderance of studies in Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States; • a methodological survey, showing, in detail, how data have been acquired and processed; • an interpretive survey, showing how these data have been related to both linguistic and other socio-cultural facts; • a comprehensive bibliography. The results and methods of perceptual dialectical studies should be interesting not only to linguists, variationists, dialectologists, and students of the social psychology of language but also to sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, and other students of culture as well as to language planners and educators.
Spanish in Miami
Author: Andrew LynchPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429796811
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Spanish in Miami reveals the multifaceted ways in which the language is ideologically rescaled and sociolinguistically reconfigured in this global city. This book approaches Miami’s sociolinguistic situation from language ideological and critical cultural perspectives, combining extensive survey data with two decades of observations, interviews, and conversations with Spanish speakers from all sectors of the city. Tracing the advent of postmodernity in sociolinguistic terms, separate chapters analyze the changing ideological representation of Spanish in mass media during the late 20th century, its paradoxical (dis)continuity in the city’s social life, the political and economic dimensions of the Miami/Havana divide, the boundaries of language through the perceptual lens of Anglicisms, and the potential of South Florida—as part of the Caribbean—to inform our understanding of the highly complex present and future of Spanish in the United States. Spanish in Miami will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of Spanish, Sociolinguistics, and Latino Studies.
Language Regard
Author: Betsy E. EvansPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107162807
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The first book of its kind to provide historical and state-of-the-art perspectives on language regard.
Dialects from Tropical Islands
Author: Wilfredo Valentin-MarquezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351630636
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States provides a comprehensive account of current research on Caribbean Spanish in the United States from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas. This edited volume highlights current scholarship and linguistic analyses in four major areas relative to Caribbean Spanish in the United States: phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage-language acquisition. This volume will be of interest to linguists and philologists who specialize in Spanish, Caribbean Spanish, Spanish in the United States, or in Romance languages in general.
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language
Author: Kim PotowskiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317563050
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 829
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language brings together contributions from leading linguists, educators and Latino Studies scholars involved in teaching and working with Spanish heritage language speakers. This state-of-the-art overview covers a range of topics within five broad areas: Spanish in U.S. public life, Spanish heritage language use and systems, educational contexts, Latino studies perspectives and Spanish outside the U.S. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language addresses for the first time the linguistic, educational and social aspects of heritage Spanish speakers in one volume making it an indispensable reference for anyone working with Spanish as a heritage language.