{"title":"El mundo del trabajo en los libros de texto de ELE","authors":"Pau Bori, A. Jovanović","doi":"10.1075/SIC.18025.BOR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SIC.18025.BOR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Este artículo adopta una perspectiva política y económica para explorar la evolución de las representaciones del\u0000 mundo laboral en los libros de texto del español como lengua extranjera (ELE) desde mediados de los setenta hasta la actualidad.\u0000 Utilizando el marco teórico del análisis crítico del discurso, examinamos históricamente el contenido laboral en libros de ELE a\u0000 la luz de las transformaciones del capitalismo en las últimas cuatro décadas. Los resultados del análisis del contenido indican un\u0000 incremento de referencias neoliberales coincidiendo con el auge del neoliberalismo como paradigma político y económico dominante.\u0000 También se constata un cambio de orientación de las actividades que pasan a centrarse en la promoción del espíritu empresarial y\u0000 la empleabilidad de los aprendices. El artículo concluye destacando la necesidad de estudiar los cambios en la esfera económica y\u0000 material de la sociedad para comprender mejor cuestiones relacionadas con la lengua y su contexto.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41577975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polylanguaging and bivalency in the Ecuadorian linguistic landscape","authors":"J. Lavender","doi":"10.1075/SIC.18004.LAV","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SIC.18004.LAV","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study analyzes the linguistic landscape (LL) of Azogues, Ecuador, by analyzing 171 photographs of business signs, taken during the summer of 2017. It analyzes cases of language mixing from a polylanguaging perspective (Jørgensen et al. 2011) and applies the concept of bivalency (Woolard 1999) to understand how linguistic features are used on signs in the LL to index membership in multiple groups and to construct multiple identities through the use of Spanish and English. It investigates the use of bivalency in lexical items, orthography and other linguistic features. This study analyzes the use of English as an outcome of globalization and examines the use of bivalency as a strategy to index global identity when access to English is limited.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42773661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spanish mid vowels as sociolinguistic variables in Galicia","authors":"M. de la Fuente Iglesias, S. Pérez Castillejo","doi":"10.1075/sic.18027.igl","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.18027.igl","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper analyzes the acoustic properties of Spanish stressed mid vowels from a corpus of over 2,800 tokens produced by\u0000 Galician-dominant bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals. Following principles of bilingual speech production theory, we explore whether these\u0000 vowels present lexically conditioned open variants [ɛ] and [ɔ] not present in monolingual Spanish. In combination with linguistic factors,\u0000 we also examine whether bilingual mid-vowel production in our corpus is related to social variables. Assuming a linguistic repertoires\u0000 perspective that links variation to identity performance, we argue that Spanish /e/ and /o/ are sociolinguistic variables in Galicia and\u0000 that the distribution of their variants can be exploited to perform social meaning.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59095873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Díaz Collazos (2015): Desarrollo sociolingüístico del voseo en la región andina de Colombia (1555–1976)","authors":"Eliot Raynor","doi":"10.1075/SIC.18016.RAY","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SIC.18016.RAY","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44914096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Percepción comunitaria de la distinción fonemática de la /s/ y la /θ/ en hablantes andaluces","authors":"Álvaro Molina-García","doi":"10.1075/SIC.19007.MOL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SIC.19007.MOL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 En el presente trabajo se demuestra si la distancia acústica calculada anteriormente (Molina-García 2019) entre [θ] y [s] en función de sus grafías –〈s〉 y 〈z, ce, ci〉– de hablantes de Andalucía es\u0000 percibida por la comunidad de habla. A continuación, se comprueba si es posible predecir cuándo las realizaciones de [θ] proceden de series\u0000 léxicas con 〈s〉 (casa) y cuándo de series con 〈z, ce, ci〉 (caza). Finalmente, se describe la\u0000 percepción social de este proceso. Para ello, se grabaron las realizaciones de un informante de 23 años con estudios universitarios y de un\u0000 informante de 56 años con estudios básicos a partir de la lectura de 30 pares mínimos [s]-[θ]. 54 jueces debían predecir qué palabra habían\u0000 leído. Los resultados muestran que la distancia acústica es percibida, que no diferencian las realizaciones del informante con el patrón\u0000 vernacular (ceceo) y que la distancia acústica goza de prestigio social.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46793832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeds of change","authors":"Christina García","doi":"10.1075/SIC.19012.GAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SIC.19012.GAR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Intervocalic /s/ voicing is of much interest recently in Hispanic Linguistics for two principal reasons: this\u0000 feature has been attested in diverse dialects of Spanish, and it has been shown to correlate in production and perception with\u0000 social factors (Davidson 2014; Chappell\u0000 2016; García 2019; among others). One finding that often surfaces is that male\u0000 speakers voice more than female speakers, and recent studies consider whether this may be due to physiological differences (File-Muriel, Brown, and Gradoville 2015; Chappell and\u0000 García 2017). The present study examines the interaction of gender, age, and interspeaker variation in the voicing of\u0000 intervocalic /s/ in the speech of 31 natives of Loja, Ecuador. While variationist studies overwhelmingly show women leading change\u0000 in progress, I argue that young men are leading voicing in Lojano Spanish and that this study of a smaller, non-English speaking\u0000 community further elucidates the intricacies of gender and linguistic change.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47887161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Oh, I don’t even know how to say this in Spanish”","authors":"Victoria Melgarejo, Mary Bucholtz","doi":"10.1075/SIC.18028.BUC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SIC.18028.BUC","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the absence of complex and diverse Latinx characters in entertainment media, film and television representations of\u0000 Latinxs’ culture and language typically embody limiting and harmful stereotypes. However, the highly praised U.S.-based romantic\u0000 comedy-drama “Jane the Virgin” offers a very different representation. With believable characters and complex linguistic dynamics, the show\u0000 provides a positive and relatively realistic representation both of Latinxs across generations and of their linguistic repertoires as\u0000 documented in community studies of Latinx language. Through an analysis of the linguistic practices of Latinx characters in “Jane the\u0000 Virgin,” including patterns of intergenerational language shift, linguistic accommodation, and codeswitching, it is argued that the show\u0000 acknowledges and treats as unmarked the linguistic complexity of Latinx families and communities. At the same time, the show oversimplifies\u0000 this complexity in some ways, creating a representation that may be perceived as authentic despite its divergence from real-world Latinx\u0000 language use.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46578754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le dije yo, digo","authors":"Pekka Posio, Andrea Pešková","doi":"10.1075/SIC.18002.POS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SIC.18002.POS","url":null,"abstract":"El presente estudio examina la forma y la función de los introductores cuotativos con el verbodecir, a saber, secuencias utilizadas para introducir diálogo construido en el discurso, en el español peninsular y argentino. Se identifican y se investigan varias diferencias morfosintácticas y distribucionales entre las dos variedades en cuanto a la expresión y posición de los argumentos del verbo, así como la referencia temporal del verbo cuotativo. Los resultados apuntan hacia un nivel más alto de construccionalización de los introductores cuotativos en la variedad peninsular que en la argentina. Además, la variedad peninsular cuenta con marcadores cuotativos invariablesdigoydice, que no ocurren en la variedad argentina. Proponemos que los marcadores cuotativos se consideren como un subtipo independiente de marcadores del discurso.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43912734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abelardo San Martín Núñez and Silvana Guerrero González (eds.), Boletín de Filología: Estudios sobre la lengua\u0000 española hablada en el mundo hispánico en su variedad geográfica y social con materiales del PRESEEA","authors":"María Sancho Pascual","doi":"10.1075/sic.00064.san","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00064.san","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Boletin de Filologia: Estudios sobre la lengua espanola hablada en el mundo hispanico en su variedad geografica y social con materiales del PRESEEA","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49017966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}