How Do You Say Madrid? Final /d/ Variation and the Indexicality of Madrilenian Localness
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Susana Pérez Castillejo
Abstract
This paper explores the hypothesis that devoicing and deletion of /-d/ can index Madrilenian localness in part because of how these variants are experienced when they happen in the city’s name. Drawing on the notions of enregisterment and metapragmatic stereotypes, this study examines how sociolinguistic variation and linguistic ideology contribute to this indexicality. The data set consists of readings, sociolinguistic interviews, and metalinguistic talk produced by 35 participants from multiple neighborhoods in Madrid. Quantitative analyses examine how /-d/ allophony in the word Madrid patterns with speakers’ characteristics and speech style. A qualitative analysis explores the explicit form-meaning links that emerge in participants’ evaluative comments about various ways of saying Madrid, as well as the underlying ideologies these associations reveal. Results show correlations in usage and recurrent discursive patterns that support the study’s hypothesis. When the word Madrid is used and talked about, the social deixis of /-d/ allophony interacts with the place deictic function of the word to conjure up certain indexicalities that can be exploited to construct locally meaningful personae. By exploring the interaction between phonetic variation and the pragmatic practice of place naming, this study expands our understanding of the development of social meaning, specifically localness.
Sentences containing the word Madrid in the reading task
El Metro de Madrid tiene casi cien años.
La mayoría de los visitantes a Madrid vienen de otras regiones de España o de países europeos.
Otro de los sitios más turísticos de Madrid es el Templo de Debod.
Se ha anunciado una huelga de conductores de los autobuses nocturnos de Madrid.
Interview questions
Please, talk to me about your family and the place in Madrid where you grew up.
What was life in your childhood neighborhood like and how has this place changed since then?
Describe how you celebrated the Christmas holidays when you were a child and how it has changed.
Where do people your age go out in Madrid and what do they do for fun? Where do you usually go out?
Do you think youth habits have changed from your parents’ generation to your generation? Why?
Do you like soccer? Do you remember where you were and what you did to celebrate the 2010 World Cup?
How do you think the economic crisis affected Madrid? Do you think we have recovered from this crisis?
What are some stereotypes that people who are not from Madrid may have about Madrilenians?
Are Madrilenians recognized by their way of speaking or behaving? If so, how?
Are there differences in how people from different areas in Madrid speak? If so, how do they differ?
If you hear the word Madrid pronounced as [maˈðɾið], [maˈðɾiθ], or [maˈðɾi], who do you associate each pronunciation with? With a different place in Madrid? With people of different ages? With different professions?
Do you watch Telemadrid? What do you think about the way Telemadrid presenters speak? Is it representative of the way people speak in Madrid?
To finish, how are you going to spend or how have you spent the holidays?
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorials
- Remembering SHLL Associate Editor Kimberly Geeslin
- A Thank You and a Welcome
- Research Articles
- Cognitive Status and Subject Reference in Spanish Written Discourse
- El efecto del refuerzo de /b d ɡ/ en la percepción de acento extranjero en español
- The Temporal Relationships between the Pluscuamperfecto and mientras + Imperfecto
- Spanish Emphatic Possessives and Reflexivity
- Linguistic Contact in Perspective: Lateral Coda in Principense Portuguese
- Las vocales glotalizadas en el español guatemalteco: Un análisis sociofonético entre los hablantes bilingües (español-kaqchikel) y monolingües
- How Do You Say Madrid? Final /d/ Variation and the Indexicality of Madrilenian Localness
- Phonetic Context, Task Formality, Learner Level, and Orthographic Effects in L2 Spanish Palatal Obstruents
