Sociolinguistic aspects of Murcian Spanish
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Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy
Abstract
In the same way that Murcia has historically been a transition area where many different cultures and civilizations have met (Iberians, Carthaginians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Muslims, Jews, Castilians, Aragonese, Catalans, and Genovese), the Spanish spoken in Murcia is a transition dialect, sharing features with Valencian Catalan, Castilian, Aragonese, and Andalusian Spanish. Its linguistic characterization has, therefore, traditionally been notably nonstandard, like the rest of southern varieties of peninsular Spanish. The aim of this article is to give an account of the current sociolinguistic situation of the Spanish spoken in Murcia, in southeastern Spain, focusing on its covert prestige characterization and its consequences in terms of dialect obsolescence in favor of the adoption of Standard Castilian Spanish, the structure of diffusion of this standard, and dialect choice in public contexts.
© 2008 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- Introduction: a sociolinguistic panorama of Spanish in Spain
- A methodological approach to the history of the sociolinguistics of the Spanish language
- The sociolinguistics of Castilian dialects
- Spanish and historical dialect in Aragon
- Sociolinguistic issues of Madrid
- The sociolinguistics of Spanish in Extremadura
- Sociolinguistic aspects of Murcian Spanish
- Sociolinguistic patterns of Andalusian Spanish
- Sociolinguistics aspects of Spanish in the Canary Islands
- Immigrants in Spain: sociolinguistic issues
- Book reviews
- L'Alguer (Alghero), a Catalan linguistic enclave in Sardinia
