Table of Contents

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction (Manuel Díaz-Campos).

I Phonological Variation.

1 Laboratory Approaches to Sound Variation and Change (Laura Colantoni).

2 Variationist Approaches: External Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology (Antonio Medina-Rivera).

3 Internal Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology (Francisco Moreno-Fernández).

4 Socio-phonological Variation in Latin American Spanish (John M. Lipski).

5 Sociophonological Variation and Change in Spain (José Antonio Samper Padilla).

II Morphosyntactic Variation.

6 Variationist Approaches to Spanish Morphosyntax: Internal and External Factors (Scott A. Schwenter).

7 Variation and Grammaticalization (Rena Torres Cacoullos).

8 Morphosyntactic Variation in Spanish-Speaking Latin America (Paola Bentivoglio and Mercedes Sedano).

9 Morphosyntactic Variation in Spain (María José Serrano).

III Language, the Individual, and the Society.

10 Aging, Age, and Sociolinguistics (Richard Cameron).

11 Gender and Variation: Word-final /s/ in Men’s and Women’s Speech in Puerto Rico’s Western Highlands (Jonathan Holmquist).

12 Forms of Address: The Effect of the Context (Diane R. Uber).

13 Becoming a Member of the Speech Community: Learning Socio-phonetic Variation in Child Language (Manuel Díaz-Campos).

14 The Relationship between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (Donald N. Tuten and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero).

15 The Acquisition of Variation in Second Language Spanish: How to Identify and Catch a Moving Target (Kimberly Geeslin).

IV Spanish in Contact.

16 Spanish in Contact with Quechua (Anna María Escobar).

17 Spanish in Contact with Guaraní (Shaw N. Gynan).

18 Spanish in Contact with Catalan (José Luis Blas Arroyo).

19 Spanish in Contact with Portuguese: the Case of Barranquenho (J. Clancy Clements, Patrícia Amaral, and Ana R. Luís).

20 Spanish in Contact with Haitian Creole (Luis A. Ortiz López).

21 Palenque (Colombia): Multilingualism in an Extraordinary Social and Historical Context (Armin Schwegler).

22 Spanish in Contact with Arabic (Lotfi Sayahi).

V Spanish in the United States, Heritage Language, L2 Spanish.

23 Spanish in the United States: Bilingual Discourse Markers (Lourdes Torres).

24 Functional Adaptation and Conceptual Convergence in the Analysis of Language Contact in the Spanish of Bilingual Communities in New York (Ricardo Otheguy).

25 Code-switching among US Latinos (Almeida Jacqueline Toribio).

26 Language and Social Meaning in Bilingual Mexico and the United States (Norma Mendoza-Denton and Bryan James Gordon).

27 Intrafamilial Dialect Contact (Kim Potowski).

28 Heritage Language Students: The Case of Spanish (Guadalupe Valdés and Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci).

29 Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos (Jorge Porcel).

30 Mockery and Appropriation of Spanish in White Spaces: Perceptions of Latinos in the United States (Adam Schwartz).

VI Language Policy/Planning, Language Attitudes and Ideology.

31 Planning Spanish: Nationalizing, Minoritizing and Globalizing Performances (Ofelia García).

32 Bilingual Education in Latin America (Serafín M. Coronel-Molina and Megan Solon).

33 Variation and Identity in Spain (Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy).

34 Variation and Identity in the Americas (Mercedes Niño-Murcia).

35 Linguistic Imperialism: Who Owns Global Spanish? (Clare Mar-Molinero and Darren Paffey).

Index.

About the Author

Manuel Diaz-Campos is Associate Professor of HispanicLinguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published onacquisition of sociolinguistic variables in L1, sociolinguisticvariation, and topics in Spanish laboratory phonology. He is editorof Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on LaboratoryApproaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (2006).

Reviews

A welcome and timely publication Diaz-Campossinglehandedly tackled this massive task with impeccable editorialskills and a well-informed vision, delivering a readable andinstructive volume [It] offers an excellent compilationthat well represents the scholarship in the field of Hispanicsociolinguistics. It reviews major issues, literature, andfindings, covering all important morphosyntactic and phonologicalvariables and extra-linguistic factors, applications ofvariationist methods to the study of language change andacquisition, macro and micro approaches to language contactsituations, and issues of language planning and ideology. There isan appropriate balance of Spanish-speaking communities on bothsides of the Atlantic An imperative reference for scholarsand advanced students of Hispanic sociolinguistics, obligatory onall MA and PhD reading lists on Hispanic linguistics, and highlyrecommended for anyone seeking a comprehensive, contemporary viewof the field. (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1May 2013) This is a state-of-the art and informative book thattackles many of the pivotal issues in theoretical and experimentalHispanic sociolinguistics. It features internationally renownedcontributors from around the world, providing a broad view and newinsights into this complex and dynamic field. Its pan-Hispanicapproach together with its breadth and novelty makethe volume an indispensable reference book for both students andresearchers. (Language in Society, 1 April2013) In conclusion, this volume merits praise for havingcompiled many excellent chapters representing bothtraditional and newer research trends in Hispanicsociolinguistics by its thirty-five authors ... As it is,it should be recommended for purchase by our university librariesas a reference book. (Project Muse, 23 April2013) The volume presents a clear explanation of the history ofthe field, recent advancements, and future directions for the fieldof Hispanic sociolinguistics that are relevant and accessible toanyone with an interest in the topic. The compilation is a must-have for the bookshelf of any modernsociolinguist, and it is a resource that will help raise questionsand shape debates in the field for years to come. (Linguist, 4 August 2012) "The book is a really impressive collection of key issues intoday's sociolinguistics. It presents the most researchedareas of the field in a comprehensive way and thereby reflects therich diversity of dialects and varieties spoken across the Americasand Spain. It should certainly be compulsory reading for anyoneinterested in sociolinguistics." (ELanguage, 2011)