Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula
Title | Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula PDF eBook |
Author | Alejandro Cuza |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2018-09-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1501509888 |
The Spanish language is spoken by an estimated 477 million people worldwide. This volume focuses on the contact between Spanish and other language varieties, including Catalan, Portuguese and Galician in the Spanish Peninsula. The book explores the characteristics of such language contact situations from structural, developmental, societal and cognitive perspectives.
Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula
Title | Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula PDF eBook |
Author | Alejandro Cuza |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2018-09-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1501509985 |
The Spanish language is spoken by an estimated 477 million people worldwide. This volume focuses on the contact between Spanish and other language varieties, including Catalan, Portuguese and Galician in the Spanish Peninsula. The book explores the characteristics of such language contact situations from structural, developmental, societal and cognitive perspectives.
Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change
Title | Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy King |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027264554 |
This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language, and includes both synchronic and diachronic studies. The volume addresses, and challenges, current theoretical assumptions on the nature of language variation and contact-induced change through empirically-based linguistic research. The sustained contact between Spanish and other languages in different parts of the world has given rise to a wide number of changes in the language, which are driven by a concomitance of different linguistic and social processes. This collection of articles provides new insight into such phenomena across the Spanish-speaking world.
Hispanic Child Languages
Title | Hispanic Child Languages PDF eBook |
Author | John Grinstead |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2009-10-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 902729058X |
This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are learning language in diverse learning conditions, including language contact, as well as monolingual and bilingual Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Euskera. This expansion and diversification of the database for studying language development is important because it creates new opportunities for testing theoretical claims. Our contributors reconsider theoretical claims relating to the purported adult-like nature of young children’s grammars. While some conclude, for example, that children in Mexico possess very adult-like semantic-pragmatic competence in the domain of the pragmatic implicatures associated with existential quantifiers, others conclude that, in particular sociolinguistic registers of Chilean Spanish, children are late to develop adult-like competence in plural marking. Taken together, the contents of the volume illustrate how the linguistic diversity found in the distinct learning conditions in which language develops offers a wealth of opportunities to further our understanding of linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive development.
Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds
Title | Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Mullen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 113956062X |
Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind. By treating a range of materials, contexts, languages, and temporal and political boundaries, the contributors consider points of cross-cultural similarity and difference and the changing linguistic landscape of East and West from antiquity into the medieval period. Insights from contemporary multilingualism theory and interdisciplinary perspectives are employed throughout to exploit the material fully.
Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond
Title | Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Bouzouita |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2021-10-25 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3110736314 |
This book aims to provide a better understanding of convergence and non-convergence phenomena, such as divergence, from different theoretical perspectives. It brings together nine case studies that deal with contact between languages found in the Iberian Peninsula (Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese and Basque), between Spanish or Portuguese and another language (such as English), and between different varieties from Europe and other continents. The volume thus unites views from two fields that rarely interact: contact linguistics and dialectology. It discusses the mechanisms and consequences of language contact within the Ibero-Romance world, a geographical space characterised by a high rate of multilingual speakers and settings. The contributions deal with various combinations of convergence and divergence, for example between different varieties of the same language, language stability despite contact, as well as less studied aspects, such as the relation between language contact and second language acquisition, the linguistic landscape perspective of language contact, and divergence in linguistic identity construction.
Iberian and Translation Studies
Title | Iberian and Translation Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Gimeno Ugalde |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2021-08-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1800857403 |
Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones offers fertile reflection on the dynamics of linguistic diversity and multifaceted literary translation flows taking place across the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical perspectives and on a historically diverse body of case studies, the volume’s sixteen chapters explore the key role of translation in shaping interliterary relations and cultural identities within Iberia. Mary Louise Pratt’s contact zone metaphor is used as an overarching concept to approach Iberia as a translation(al) space where languages and cultural systems (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish) set up relationships either of conflict, coercion, and resistance or of collaboration, hospitality, and solidarity. In bringing together a variety of essays by multilingual scholars whose conceptual and empirical research places itself at the intersection of translation and literary Iberian studies, the book opens up a new interdisciplinary field of enquiry: Iberian translation studies. This allows for a renewed study of canonical authors such as Joan Maragall, Fernando Pessoa, Camilo José Cela, and Bernardo Atxaga, and calls attention to emerging bilingual contemporary voices. In addition to addressing understudied genres (the entremez and the picaresque novel) and the phenomena of self-translation, indirect translation, and collaborative translation, the book provides fresh insights into Iberian cultural agents, mediators, and institutions.