Sociolinguistics And Pragmatics Of Spanish Paperback 2

Carmen Silva-Corvalan

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.

1626163952

9781626163959

Spanish

Georgetown University Press

01 Mar 2017

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Carmen Silva-Corvalan is a professor of Spanish and linguistics at the University of Southern California. She is author of Spanish in Four Continents:Studies in Language Contact (GUP) and Bilingual Language Acquisition: Spanish and English in the First Six Years, among other works. Andres Enrique-Arias is an associate professor of Spanish at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and the author of numerous publications on the historical aspects of Spanish morphosyntax.

Andrés Enrique-Arias

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