{"id":811,"date":"2010-08-19T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=811"},"modified":"2010-06-23T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T07:17:47","slug":"spanish-in-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Spanish in contact"},"content":{"rendered":"
Spanish in contact:<\/strong> Policy, social and linguistic inquiries. Ed. by Kim Potowski <\/strong>and Richard Cameron<\/strong>. (IMPACT: Studies in language and society<\/a> 22.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007. Pp. 397. ISBN 9789027218612<\/a>. $165 (Hb).<\/div>\n

Reviewed by Isabel \u00c1lvarez<\/strong><\/a>, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh<\/em><\/p>\n

This volume includes twenty-one papers on the topic of Spanish in contact with other languages. These papers were presented at the XX Conference on Spanish and Portuguese in Contact with Other Languages, which took place in Chicago in March of 2005.<\/p>\n

Part 1, which focuses on \u2018Heritage Spanish in the United States\u2019, includes three papers. Carmen Silva-Corval\u00e1n<\/strong> and Noelia S\u00e1nchez-Walker<\/strong> show the development of autonomous syntactic systems in bilingual first language acquisition. Silvina A. Montrul<\/strong> discusses mood distinctions and concludes that second generation speakers may not have the ability to discriminate semantically between the subjunctive and the indicative. Francisco Moreno Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> studies the lexicon of Hispanic teenagers in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Part 2 is devoted to \u2018Education and policy issues\u2019. Maria M. Carreira<\/strong> offers different strategies to support instruction in mixed-ability classes. Lourdes Torres<\/strong> discusses ways of enhancing bilingualism in both island and stateside Puerto Ricans. The last two papers are devoted to policy issues in Spain: Manuel Triano-L\u00f3pez<\/strong> studies the de-Castilianization of Valencian, and Ver\u00f3nica Loureiro-Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> examines the nature of the standardized form of Galician and its role in Galician society.<\/p>\n

The papers in Part 3 deal with \u2018Pragmatics and contact\u2019. Janet M. Fuller<\/strong>, Minta Elsman<\/strong>, and\u00a0 Kevan\u00a0Self<\/strong><\/strong> shed light on the conversational structure of bilingual discourse. Ana S\u00e1nchez-Mu\u00f1oz <\/strong>examines the style and register of college heritage speakers of Spanish. Linda Ohlson <\/strong>uses the Spanish-English lyrics of bachata songs to show that codeswitching may be used as a stylistic tool. Marilyn S. Manley<\/strong> discusses the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic markers in Quechua and the influence these markers have on Andean Spanish. Luis A. Ortiz L\u00f3pez<\/strong> investigates double negation along the Dominican Republic\/Haitian border and concludes that the presence of double negation in Dominican Spanish is not the result of contact with Haitian Creole.<\/p>\n

Part 4, the largest in this volume, is devoted to \u2018Variation and contact\u2019. Anna Mar\u00eda Escobar<\/strong> shows that colonial bilingual documents cannot be used as evidence of early stages in the formation of the Andean Spanish dialect. Kimberly L. Geeslin<\/strong> and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes<\/strong> examine copula use in Galician Spanish. They conclude that copula use across the Spanish-speaking world is constrained by similar linguistic features. The next three articles focus on the Spanish spoken in New York City: Ricardo Otheguy<\/strong> and Ana Celia Zentella<\/strong> discuss possible reasons for the increasing use of overt subject pronouns in second generation speakers, Nydia Flores-Ferr\u00e1n<\/strong> shows how tense and aspect are conditioned by the segment of the narrative being recounted, and Rafael Orozco<\/strong> studies the factors that constrain the expression of futurity in the Spanish of New York Colombians. The last two chapters look at two contact situations in the south: Jessi Elena Aaron<\/strong> and Jos\u00e9 Esteban Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> show how contact between Salvadoran and Mexican Spanish in Houston has affected the \/s\/ reduction distribution in Salvadorans, and Michelle L. Salazar<\/strong> shows that the northern New Mexico\/southern Colorado variety of Spanish exhibits the same innovative uses of estar<\/em> \u2018to be\u2019 found in other Spanish dialects.<\/p>\n

Part 5, which includes the last two chapters of this volume, is devoted to \u2018Bozal<\/em> Spanish\u2019, a pidginized language used by African slaves. John M. Lipski<\/strong> reviews four sources of authentic data that allow a more realistic reconstruction of bozal<\/em> Spanish. William M. Megenney<\/strong> analyzes the language used in some Cuban and Brazilian neo-African literature and demonstrates how bozal <\/em>was incorporated into these writings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spanish in contact: Policy, social and linguistic inquiries. Ed. by Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron. (IMPACT: Studies in language and society 22.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007. Pp. 397. ISBN 9789027218612. $165 (Hb). Reviewed by Isabel \u00c1lvarez, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh This volume includes twenty-one papers on the topic of Spanish in contact with other languages. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}