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Chapter 5. Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation
Abstract
This chapter outlines various linguistic phenomena involved in the creation and transmission of ethnolinguistic variation, as a general framework for understanding Amazonian Spanish specifically. Language and dialect contact, second language acquisition, bilingualism, and language shift have all played important roles in the emergence and maintenance of ethnicity-based language varieties around the world, and Amazonian Spanish is certainly no exception. The chapter considers the potential explanatory value of the concept of an ethnolinguistic repertoire (Benor, 2010) when accounting for patterns of variation observed in Amazonian Spanish, and also points out the need to examine the interaction between ethnicity and other relevant social factors such as age, gender, and social class (Wolfram & Schilling, 2016) as speakers index their multifaceted identities.
Abstract
This chapter outlines various linguistic phenomena involved in the creation and transmission of ethnolinguistic variation, as a general framework for understanding Amazonian Spanish specifically. Language and dialect contact, second language acquisition, bilingualism, and language shift have all played important roles in the emergence and maintenance of ethnicity-based language varieties around the world, and Amazonian Spanish is certainly no exception. The chapter considers the potential explanatory value of the concept of an ethnolinguistic repertoire (Benor, 2010) when accounting for patterns of variation observed in Amazonian Spanish, and also points out the need to examine the interaction between ethnicity and other relevant social factors such as age, gender, and social class (Wolfram & Schilling, 2016) as speakers index their multifaceted identities.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction. Spanish in the Amazon region 1
- Chapter 1. Language loss and language gain in Amazonia 7
- Chapter 2. Bilingualism, second language acquisition, and language contact 35
- Chapter 3. Origins and dialectology studies of Spanish in America 57
- Chapter 4. Language documentation and revitalization as a feedback loop 81
- Chapter 5. Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation 105
- Chapter 6. Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech 127
- Chapter 7. Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon 155
- Chapter 8. Interrogative intonation in monolingual Amazonian Spanish 191
- Chapter 9. Phonological processes in flux 223
- Chapter 10. The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads 259
- Epilogue. Insights for contact linguistics and future investigations of Spanish in the Amazon region 287
- Index 299
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction. Spanish in the Amazon region 1
- Chapter 1. Language loss and language gain in Amazonia 7
- Chapter 2. Bilingualism, second language acquisition, and language contact 35
- Chapter 3. Origins and dialectology studies of Spanish in America 57
- Chapter 4. Language documentation and revitalization as a feedback loop 81
- Chapter 5. Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation 105
- Chapter 6. Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech 127
- Chapter 7. Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon 155
- Chapter 8. Interrogative intonation in monolingual Amazonian Spanish 191
- Chapter 9. Phonological processes in flux 223
- Chapter 10. The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads 259
- Epilogue. Insights for contact linguistics and future investigations of Spanish in the Amazon region 287
- Index 299
