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Sociolingüística y pragmática del español

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Carmen Silva-Corvalán author Andrés Enrique-Arias author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Georgetown University Press

Published:1st May '17

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Written with commendable clarity and intellectual generosity, this renewal of an already impeccable first edition offers the reader a wide-ranging view of the field with a wealth of examples, thoughtful questions, and useful research suggestions. It is an indispensable source of information and ideas for scholars and students of Spanish language and linguistics. -- Andrew Lynch, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Miami An inspiring must-read, this will be the textbook of choice and set the research agenda in the field for years to come. Readers are invited to join in discovering the fascinating structure of language variation across the Spanish-speaking world, grounded in the scientific method and the speech community. -- Rena Torres-Cacoullos, Rena Torres Cacoullos, Penn State University, Pennsylvania State University Si quiere aprender sobre la sociolinguistica de hoy dia con un enfoque en el espanol, compre el libro de Silva-Corvalan y Enrique-Arias. Los autores proveen ejercicios excelentes que apoyan su presentacion de elementos fundamentales tales como: el trabajo de campo y la entrevista; la dialectologia y los estudios variacionistas; la variable sociolinguistica y el cambio linguistico; los factores sociales y los debates sobre el sexo/genero; la clase social o la comunidad de practica; el rol de la pragmatica y otros campos de la linguistica; y los estudios de lenguas en contacto; actitudes linguisticas; el espanol de los Estados Unidos y la sociolinguistica aplicada. En fin, es un texto escencial y abarcador. If you want to learn about the sociolinguistics of today with a focus on Spanish, buy this book by Silva-Corvalan and Enrique-Arias. They provide excellent exercises which support their presentation of fundamental issues such as fieldwork and the interview, dialectology and variationist research, the sociolinguistic variable and language change, social factors and related debates on sex/gender, social class or the community of practice, the role of pragmatics and other linguistic sub-disciplines, and research into languages in contact, linguistic attitudes, Spanish in the US, and applied sociolinguistics. In short, this is an essential and comprehensive textbook. -- Richard Cameron, , University of Illinois at Chicago

Provides an overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, this book includes revised Ejercicios de Reflexion along with new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, enhancing its use as a classroom text.This thoroughly updated second edition provides a clear and comprehensiveoverview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised "Ejercicios de Reflexion" along with new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, enhancing its use as a classroom text. Among the significant revisions are more attention to the relation of pragmatics to sociolinguistics, a new section on applied sociolinguistics and the teaching of Spanish as a heritage language, updated information on statistical modeling programs for studying linguistic variables, expanded coverage of the overt versus null pronominal subject variable, a new emphasis on pragmatics in chapter 5, and a new section on Spanglish.

ISBN: 9781626163959

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 590g

432 pages

segunda edición