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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPrefacio, primera edicionPrefacio, segunda edicion Capitulo 1: Lengua, variacion y dialectos Capitulo 2: Metodologia Capitulo 3: El estudio de actitudes linguisticas Capitulo 4: Teoria de la variacion y sociofonologia Capitulo 5: Variacion sintactica y morfosintactica Capitulo 6: Pragmatica del discurso oral Capitulo 7: Variacion y cambio Capitulo 8: Lenguas en contacto y bilinguismo ApendiceReferenciasIndice de materias
