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Spanish in Context - Volume 17, Issue 2, 2020
Volume 17, Issue 2, 2020
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Between dialect and standard
Author(s): Isabel Molina Martospp.: 178–199 (22)More LessAbstractThis paper offers a sociolinguistic analysis of the consonants (s) and (d) in the coda position in the city of Madrid, within the framework of the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and America (PRESEEA). The purpose is to illustrate how varieties of southern Castilian Spanish and those from the central and northern Peninsula converge and diverge, taking into consideration the social, political, and economic parameters that affect said processes. The diversity of patterns that coexist in the Madrid speech community reflects the city’s historic social complexity, the varied geographical origins of its migrant population, the interests that motivate each community of practice, as well as other circumstances that influence the direction of change. The analysis of (s) and (d) in coda illustrates the way in which the dynamics of variation and change in Madrid fluctuate between two poles: standardization and regionalization, the same two axes around which the community’s sociolinguistic patterns revolve.
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Patterns of the linguistic change in Andalusia
Author(s): Juan Antonio Moya Corral and María de la Sierra Tejada Giráldezpp.: 200–220 (21)More LessAbstractStudies on the Andalusian variety carried out in the last decades have allowed us to know, with some precision, the way in which certain factors condition the operation. The objective of this paper is to determine if some of these changes are subject to common behaviour. In our research, we focus on the changes that have some kind of prestige and we left aside the non-prestigious ones. The results have shown us a big difference between changes that operate from the top down to the bottom and those that, on the contrary, operate from the bottom upwards. This first group of changes, in addition to having a wide range of prestige and being in agreement with the national standard, these changes are relatively new. In fact, they were driven by a generation subjected to extremely marked social pressures. Currently, these prestigious processes are common throughout the entire dialect, although the rate in which they arrive on the social strata differs depending on the geographical zone. By contrast, the changes that operate from the bottom upwards are not new, they have local prestige, and they present different solutions in different geographical areas.
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The weakening of intervocalic /d/ in the Spanish of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Author(s): José Antonio Samper Padilla and Marta Samper Hernándezpp.: 221–246 (26)More LessAbstractThe present paper compares the results obtained from the analysis of intervocalic /d/ in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with those of other PRESEEA research groups (four Spanish groups and a Latin American one). The Spanish of the Canary Islands is placed, as in other phenomena, halfway between Peninsular and Latin American Spanish. In this process of weakening, interdialectal differences in the degree of deletion of /d/ in participles and the determiner todo stand out, together with some virtually Panhispanic characteristics. The differences in the weakening of the obstruent in these two contexts are closely related to the frequency of their use in the different communities.
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Convergence and divergence in the use of third-person atonic pronouns in Madrid and Malaga
Author(s): Francisco Díaz Montesinos and Florentino Paredes Garcíapp.: 247–272 (26)More LessAbstractThis paper describes the linguistic situation of pronominal clitics used as direct objects (DO) in two Spanish speech communities, Malaga and Madrid, which use, respectively, the etymological system and referential system, the two basic clitic systems that have been described for Spanish. The initial hypothesis is that both communities are undergoing a process of convergence with the educated pan-Hispanic model, which permits leísmo (use of le) with a masculine, singular person. Thus, the analyses successively restricted the corpus of clitics with the aim of determining how linguistic and social conditions affect each type of leísmo: apparent and real leísmo, leísmo with things, leísmo with a feminine person, leísmo with animals, leísmo with a masculine, plural person, and leísmo with a masculine, singular person.
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The agreement of existential haber in three varieties of spoken Spanish
Author(s): M.ª Begoña Gómez Devís and José Ramón Gómez Molinapp.: 273–293 (21)More LessAbstractThis paper aims to present one of the most relevant linguistic phenomena of spoken Spanish on both sides of the Atlantic. The singular/plural forms of the verb haber with existential meaning have received considerable attention due to the fact that it is a linguistic variable that changes according to the variety of Spanish that is used. We report the findings from the research carried out within three speech communities: Valencia, Las Palmas and Mexico City, analysing the internal and external factors that may explain this linguistic variation. For this study we have selected these communities because all the data have been obtained according to the guidelines proposed in the PRESEEA (Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and from America). The results are the product of rigorous statistical analysis and allow us to illustrate the processes of convergence or divergence.
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An approach to subject pronoun expression patterns in data from the “Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in Spain and America”
Author(s): Pedro Martín-Butragueñopp.: 294–316 (23)More LessAbstractThe objective of this article is to extract certain general consequences about social and linguistic-pragmatic conditions in the expression of subject personal pronouns (SPPs) in contemporary urban Spanish. The study examines some of the results obtained in Valencia and Granada, Spain; Mexico City, Mexico; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Caracas, Venezuela; Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia; and Montevideo, Uruguay. These works have all analyzed data from the “Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in Spain and America” (PRESEEA), thus they all share data collected under very similar circumstances (Moreno Fernández 1996; Cestero Mancera 2012). The presence or the absence of pronominal subjects in Spanish is required in certain contexts, but in most cases they are considered optional. This optionality depends on fixed factors of linguistic nature (such as the grammatical person and number of the subject, or the co-reference between the subject and a previous element) and of social nature (such as age or gender), and on random factors (such as individuals and verbal pieces). The hypotheses to be tested are: (a) there is geographical variation among the cities studied, which is reflected in the rates of overt SPPs (Otheguy & Zentella 2012; Carvalho, Orozco & Shin 2015); (b) social variation is relatively small within each city; (c) the fixed and random linguistic-pragmatic variation is intense within each city and similar among cities; (d) the most relevant factors that activate overt SPPs are related to adequate information management of the anaphoric chains and textual coherence.
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Convergences and divergences inthe use of the diminutive in Medellin, Caracas and Madrid
Author(s): Irania Malaver and Florentino Paredes Garcíapp.: 317–340 (24)More LessAbstractThis article analyzes the differences and coincidences in the uses of the diminutive found in three varieties of Spanish. Based on the classification of the pragmatic functions of the diminutive by Reynoso (2003), and the analysis of 5355 cases of non-lexicalized diminutives, it may be observed that the three varieties converge greatly in the production of the diminutive forms of -ito. There is some divergence in the variety of lexical bases that support the diminutive since the people of Madrid use (and listen to) more diminutives than Americans, but they use (and listen to) them in a smaller number of different words. The social factors contained in the sample have shown a reduced effect on the functions of the suffix, and a partially differentiating behavior among the three communities: in Caracas, age has a strong influence on the functions while, in Madrid and Medellin, the level of education is the factor that exerts more influence on these functions.
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Narrative present in the Spanish of Santiago, Chile
Author(s): Silvana Guerrero González, Javier González Riffo and Silvana Arriagada Anabalónpp.: 341–361 (21)More LessAbstractThis investigation revises the use of the narrative present in the materials of the PRESEEA corpus. Based on 54 sociolinguistic interviews, the convergence and divergence of this phenomenon’s use is studied in the Spanish varieties from Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City. We attempt to study variation according to the individuals, economic factors and the presence of syntactic-discursive introductors before verbs, following the methodological guidelines of the Guía de estudios del presente narrativo en los corpus PRESEEA (Guerrero and Arriagada, 2017). In this way, we intend to answer two general questions: (a) why are there individuals who use the narrative present more than others and (b) what functions serve such resource within the narratives in sociolinguistic interviews.
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Uses and resources of mitigation, in contrast
Author(s): Ana M. Cestero Mancerapp.: 362–383 (22)More LessAbstractMitigation is a highly complex pragmatic phenomenon which has been prioritized as a subject of study in recent decades. However, because of this complexity, there is still neither a convincing definition of exactly what mitigation is nor a definitive list of the linguistic and non-verbal resources through which it is carried out. For this reason, several empirical studies which seek to explain sociopragmatic and geolectal variability in the uses and strategies of mitigation are under way. This is also the aim of our paper, included in the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and America (PRESEEA). In it, we present relevant data obtained from the comparison of what occurs in Madrid, Valencia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Puebla (Mexico) regarding the frequency of the production of mitigation and its function in transactional interaction, together with the most productive strategies used in each community. This enables us to identify convergences and divergences and pinpoint sociopragmatic and geolectal patterns.
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Abelardo San Martín Núñez and Silvana Guerrero González (eds.), Boletín de Filología: Estudios sobre la lengua española hablada en el mundo hispánico en su variedad geográfica y social con materiales del PRESEEA
Author(s): María Sancho Pascualpp.: 384–389 (6)More LessThis article reviews Boletín de Filología: Estudios sobre la lengua española hablada en el mundo hispánico en su variedad geográfica y social con materiales del PRESEEA
Volumes & issues
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Volume 21 (2024)
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Volume 20 (2023)
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Volume 19 (2022)
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Volume 18 (2021)
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Volume 17 (2020)
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Volume 16 (2019)
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Volume 15 (2018)
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Volume 14 (2017)
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Volume 13 (2016)
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Volume 12 (2015)
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Volume 11 (2014)
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Volume 10 (2013)
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Volume 9 (2012)
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Volume 8 (2011)
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Volume 7 (2010)
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Volume 6 (2009)
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Volume 5 (2008)
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Volume 4 (2007)
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Volume 3 (2006)
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Volume 2 (2005)
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Volume 1 (2004)
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