Diversification of Mexican Spanish : a tridimensional study in new world sociolinguistics

Diversification of Mexican Spanish a tridimensional study in new world sociolinguistics

This book offers a diversification model of transplanted languages that facilitates the exploration of external factors and internal changes. The general context is the New World and the variety that unfolded in the Central Highlands and the Gulf of Mexico, herein identified as Mexican Colonial Span...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hidalgo, Margarita G. author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston, [Massachusetts] ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter 2016
2016.
Series:Contributions to the sociology of language ; Volume 111.
Subjects:
Spanish language > Mexico > History.
Spanish language > Variation > Mexico > History.
Spanish language > Written Spanish > History.
Spanish language > Mexico > Social aspects.
Sociolinguistics > Mexico > History.
Diversification.
Historical Sociolinguistics.
Latin America.
Variation.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009420094706719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: Sociolinguistic diversification
  • 1. The origins of Spanish: Spain and the New World
  • 2. The first speakers of Mexican Spanish
  • 3. The Spanish language and its variations in New Spain
  • 4. Koineization and the first generation of Spanish speakers
  • 5. How Spanish diversified
  • 6. Continuity and change: The second generation
  • 7. Religion, bilingualism and acculturation
  • 8. Diversification and stability: 17th century
  • 9. The end of the colonial period: 18th century
  • 10. Diversification, attrition and residual variants
  • 11. Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index

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