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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays presents cutting-edge research in Hispanic sociolinguistics. They include studies on language variation and change, contact varieties, language use, perception, and attitudes and focus on language varieties such as Peruvian Spanish, Mexican Spanish on the U.S. Mexican border and in the Midwest, and two Peninsular varieties (in the Basque country and in Catalonia). This book is a Festschrift in honor of Anna María Escobar and her twenty-five years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Table of ContentsContents: María del Puy Ciriza: Family transmission and social networks: Insights on a Basque Spanish case – Susana de los Heros/Margarita Jara: Exploring the functions of ‘ASÍ’ in Peruvian Spanish – Claudia Holguín Mendoza: Pragmatic functions and cultural communicative needs in the use of innovative quotatives among Mexican bilingual youth – Liliana Sánchez: Convergence in feature mapping: Evidentiality, aspect and nominalizations in Quechua-Spanish bilinguals – Justin Davidson: Intervocalic fricative voicing in the Spanish of Barcelona: Considerations for contact-induced sociophonetic innovation – Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza: Son importantes los dos: Language use and attitudes among wives of Mexican profesionistas on the U.S.-Mexico border – Isabel Velázquez: Intergenerational perceptions of Spanish use and viability in first-generation midwestern Latino households – Zsuzsanna Fagyal: Sociolinguistic variation and pluricentricity: Postface to Case Studies in Honor of Anna María Escobar.
