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The Language of Service Encounters
A comprehensive account of face-to-face interactions in commercial and non-commercial service encounter settings.
Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond
Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data from living and/or extinct Mesoamerican languages (from the Mayan, Uto-Aztecan, Totonac-Tepehuan and Otomanguean groups), neighboring non-Mesoamerican languages (Apachean, Arawakan, Andean languages), as well as Spanish. Language-contact effects in these diverse languages and language groups are typically analyzed by different subfields of linguistics that do not necessarily interact with one another. It is hoped that this volume, which contains works from different scholarly traditions that represent a variety of approaches to the study of language contact, will contribute to the lessening of this compartmentalization. The volume is relevant to researchers of language contact and contact-induced change and to anyone interested both in the historical development and present features of indigenous languages of the Americas and Latin American Spanish.
Address in Portuguese and Spanish
The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish, in their European and American varieties. Both languages share a common history—e.g., the personal union of Philipp II of Spain and Philipp I of Portugal; the parallel colonization of the Americas by Portugal and Spain; the long-term transformation from a feudal to a democratic system—in which crucial moments in the diachrony of address took place. To give one example, empirical data show that the puzzling late spread of Sp. usted ‘you (formal, polite)’ and Pt. você ‘you’ across America can be explained for both languages by the role of the political and military colonial administration. To explore these new insights, the volume relies on an innovative methodology, as it links traditional downstream diachrony with upstream diachronic reconstruction based on synchronic variation. Including theoretical reflections as well as fine-grained empirical studies, it brings together the most relevant authors in the field.
Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española
The most up-to-date and comprehensive description of the Spanish language's phonetic and phonological system Though there has been considerable research in Spanish phonology, until now, no in-depth and complete descriptive reference work has existed. Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española Volumes 1 and 2 is a comprehensive reference, written in Spanish, describing the phonetics and phonology of Spanish. Edited by Juana Gil Fernandez and Joaquim Llisterri, this set provides a comprehensive overview for understanding segmental and suprasegmental topics in Spanish phonology, making clear what further research is needed. The international set of contributors in this essential...
The Continuity of Linguistic Change
The Continuity of Linguistic Change presents a collection of selected papers in honour of Professor Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda. The essays revolve around the study of linguistic variation and the mechanisms and processes associated with linguistic change, a field to which Villena-Ponsoda has dedicated so many years of research. The authors are researchers of renowned international prestige who have made significant contributions in this field. The chapters cover a range of related topics and provide modern theoretical and methodological perspectives, addressing the structural, cognitive, historical and social factors that underlie and promote linguistic change in varieties of Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. The reader will find contributions that explore topics such as phonology, acoustic phonetics and processes deriving from the contact between languages or linguistic varieties, specifically levelling, koineisation, standardisation and the emergence of ethnolects.
Fonética Y Fonología Descriptivas de la Lengua Española
"Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española, Volume 1: Nivel segmental is the first volume in a two-volume comprehensive reference, written in Spanish, describing the phonetics and phonology of Spanish. Edited by Juana Gil Fernandez and Joaquim Llisterri and including top scholars in the field, volume 1 provides a comprehensive overview for understanding segmental topics in Spanish phonology--such as vowels, paravocals, fricatives and affricates--and what further research is needed. The international set of contributors in volume 1 present evidence never before analyzed, introduce new theoretical concepts and issues not considered previously, extend the scope of the case studies, and organize its many subtopics, as well as suggest new topics for future research. A descriptive reference with copious figures and tables, this book is the key to the field's assumptions and a presentation of accepted research on which future scholarship is based. Though there has been considerable research in Spanish phonology, no comprehensive descriptive reference work exists. This volume presents a must-have set of research from top scholars"--
Fonología instrumental
El hilo conductor de este libro tiene que ver con las complejas relaciones entre fon tica y fonolog a, entendida la primera como un conjunto de herramientas y de resultados de primera mano, sean stos de ndole ac stica, sobre todo, pero tambi n articulatoria y perceptiva, todo ello al servicio de las generalizaciones que caracterizan a la segunda. La decena y media de trabajos que re ne el volumen, tienen el prop sito de combinar la investigaci n de reconocidos especialistas extranjeros con la producci n investigadora del contexto mexicano, todo ello enhebrado a la luz de los temas m s trabajados en el entorno del Laboratorio de Estudios F nicos.
Women in the Theatre of Galdós
This study provides an examination of the Spanish novelist Perez Galdos' turn to the stage in 1892 and his simultaneous shift in approach towards the roles of women in society. Particular attention is paid to the creation of and compromise involved in Galdos' dramatic debut, Realidad, which marks a significant turning point in both artistic and ideological terms. The study analyzes through the contemporary drama of the first period the subsequent evolution of La Mujer Nueva on stage. All the relevant manuscripts, correspondence, and reviews available in the CasaMuseo and the Biblioteca Nacional have been studied in order to present a comprehensive picture of this phase in Galdos' career.
The Argentine Novel
A comprehensive resource that covers a period from 1788, the year Miguel Learte wrote Las aventuras de Learte, until 1990, when authors such as Osvaldo Soriano and Luisa Valenzuela published their popular novels. Also includes works which may be considered under the rubric of short novel which, in spite of their length, resemble the novel more than the short story in their basic literary conception, plot development, and narrative scope. Novels written by native Argentines and transplants are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
