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Spanish in Context - Volume 16, Issue 2, 2019
Volume 16, Issue 2, 2019
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Combinaciones entre operadores argumentativos
Author(s): Catalina Fuentes Rodríguezpp.: 151–172 (22)More LessResumenEl trabajo analiza la fijación de una construcción, si cabe, como operador escalar. Se describe su comportamiento como regulador de la escala: señala la posición superior y exige la combinación con otro intensificador. Se analiza también la aparición de la estructura en diferentes contextos, ya sea como construcción libre o construcción con valor periférico en el enunciado. La descripción sigue una perspectiva pragmática y macrosintáctica, se centra en el estudio de la gramaticalización de operadores discursivos e incorpora a su estudio una dimensión combinatoria de la que surgen nuevos elementos. La investigación se apoya en los corpus de la RAE (CREA, CORPES y CORDE) así como en el corpus MEsA, de discurso digital.
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Short-term accommodation as a function of addressee language proficiency
Author(s): Cecily Corbettpp.: 173–193 (21)More LessAbstractThis paper examines patterns of phonetic accommodation as a function of addressee target language proficiency. Specifically, it analyzes short-term adjustments in the articulation of coda consonants /s/, /ɾ/, and /n/ in the speech of eight New York Dominican Spanish speakers during a series of conversations with different addressees – a native speaker and three nonnative Spanish speakers who have varying levels of Spanish proficiency. Results demonstrate that addressee native-speaker status and proficiency play a statistically significant role in both the degree and direction of phonetic accommodation exhibited by the native speaker informants. While the informants converge with both the most- and least-proficient addressees, they initially diverge from the mid-proficient addressee. The study finds that the native speaker informants use overtly-prestigious variants to attune to the academic Spanish of the most-proficient addressees and use covertly-prestigious, emblematic variants with both the mid-proficient and native speaker addressees to demonstrate outgroup and ingroup membership, respectively.
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Adjectives in Spanish/English code-switching
Author(s): Osmer Balam and María del Carmen Parafita Coutopp.: 194–216 (23)More LessAbstractThe current study investigates DP-internal adjectives in Spanish/English code-switching (CS). Specifically, we analyze two concomitant phenomena that have been previously investigated; namely, the distributional frequency and placement of adjectives in mixed determiner phrases (DPs). A total of 1680 DPs (477 monolingual Spanish and 1203 Spanish/English DPs), extracted from sociolinguistic interviews with 62 consultants from Northern Belize, were quantitatively examined. This paper is the first of its kind to examine adjectives in the innovative Spanish/English CS variety of Northern Belize, an understudied context where bilingual CS has thrived among younger generations. The distributional and statistical analyses revealed that the avoidance of Spanish attributive adjectives and overt gender marking is a distinguishing characteristic of mixed DPs but not monolingual Spanish DPs, a finding that supports Otheguy and Lapidus’ (2003) adaptive simplification hypothesis. In terms of adjective placement, both the Matrix Language Frame model and the Minimalist approach to CS were able to account for mixed noun-adjective DPs, with the exception of a few cases that could only be predicted by the former model. The present analysis highlights the pivotal role that simplification and convergence play in code-switchers’ optimization of linguistic resources in bi/multilingual discourse.
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‘Is it always so fast?’
Author(s): Leticia Tian Zhang and Daniel Cassanypp.: 217–242 (26)More LessAbstractWhile much research has proved the benefits of subtitled audiovisuals for foreign language learning, few studies address such practices in out-of-classroom settings or focus on Asia-based video-sharing platforms. This study bridges this gap by introducing an increasingly popular viewing-commenting system in Japan and China, known as danmu or danmaku, which displays viewers’ timeline-synchronized comments on video content. We analyse the metalinguistic comments which entail viewers’ knowledge of the language, their comprehension issues and sociolinguistic attitudes toward its use. Adopting an inductive or data-driven methodology, we extracted and manually coded 390 comments that are related to the Spanish language, Spanish–Chinese translation and learning Spanish. Results show that viewers are mostly interested in linguistic features that differ from Chinese or English (e.g. the complex grammar) and they use danmu to access sociolinguistic issues that are central to daily communication such as the fast speech rate, language varieties, and frequent use of vulgarisms.
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La campaña contra el ‘manspreading’ entre paisaje semiótico y eco mediático
Author(s): Gianluca Pontrandolfopp.: 243–271 (29)More LessResumenEl estudio analiza la campaña contra el ‘manspreading’ (el despatarre masculino en el transporte público) como fenómeno semiótico. El punto de partida de la investigación es la decisión de la Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid de poner una pegatina contra el despatarre de los hombres en todos los autobuses madrileños. El tema despierta interés y desata críticas desde distintas posiciones: la supuesta invasión del espacio público por parte de los varones engendra reflexiones acerca del posicionamiento de los hombres y de las mujeres en la sociedad moderna; además, estos gestos de comunicación no verbal y los signos lingüísticos a estos asociados revelan sesgos de género que es interesante observar bajo una perspectiva sociolingüística y multimodal.
Desde el punto de vista metodológico, la investigación sienta sus bases en dos ejes: por un lado, los cimientos teóricos del ‘paisaje lingüístico’, al analizar algunas imágenes contra el ‘manspreading’ como productos semióticos sociales de corte multimodal; por el otro, el estudio del discurso enfocado bajo la perspectiva sociolingüística y pragmática, al examinar la resonancia de la decisión en la prensa española.
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Los marcadores del discurso
Author(s): Elena Landonepp.: 272–291 (20)More LessResumenEl objetivo de este estudio es investigar si los marcadores del discurso (MD) (como hombre, bueno, etc.) pueden aportar información verbal que despierte las inferencias de los hablantes sobre la relación emotiva que surge en una conversación. Se adopta una metodología émica, que consiste en obtener la percepción de la emoción de los sujetos en dos corpus paralelos de diálogos (español e italiano). Los resultados demuestran que algunos MD funcionan realmente como índices inferenciales emotivos, pero varían según el hablante y son altamente dependientes del contexto.
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Ana María Cestero Mancera, Isabel Molina Martos, Florentino Paredes García (eds.). Patrones sociolingüísticos de Madrid
Author(s): Salvatore Callesanopp.: 292–297 (6)More LessThis article reviews Patrones sociolingüísticos de Madrid
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Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen y Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.). Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance. Approaches across linguistic subfields
Author(s): Analía Gutiérrezpp.: 298–306 (9)More LessThis article reviews Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance. Approaches across linguistic subfields
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Julia Schultz. The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801: A Lexical Investigation
Author(s): María Dolores Trebucqpp.: 307–313 (7)More LessThis article reviews The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801: A Lexical Investigation
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Rosina Lozano. An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States
Author(s): Luis Guzmán Valeriopp.: 314–321 (8)More LessThis article reviews An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States
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