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This report focuses on some aspects of U.S. Spanish, namely its pragmatic dimensions, including the alternation between Spanish and English in bilingual speech. The main points addressed in this presentation with the changes that occur, either due to the influence of English or because of the dialect leveling that occurs between different varieties of Spanish in contact with each other, in the areas of forms of address, direct or indirect realization of speech acts, and politeness. On the other hand, at the discursive level, emphasis is placed on the linguistic manifestations and socio-political implications of the language switching both in the intra-group communicative oral interaction and the literature written by prestigious U.S. authors.
F Nuessel J J Bergen (Ed) Spanish in the United States Sociolinguistic Issues
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This volume contains the selected proceedings of the seventh annual conference of El español en los Estados Unidos held at the University of New Mexico (October 1986). Its first meeting took place at the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1982. It contains 15 chapters on various sociolinguitic aspects of the Spanish of the US in the Southwest, New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, Iowa, and Indiana.
Lingua. Vol. 62, No. 2-3. Pp. 247-254., 1984
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Spanish in Contact With English in the United States
Oxford Research Encyclopedias, 2023
In the United States, Spanish is spoken by more than 50 million people, making it one of the largest Spanishspeaking populations in the world. What differentiates Spanish in the United States from most other national contexts is the ubiquitous presence of English, which engenders two important and related effects. First, at the level of the individual, the overwhelming majority of Spanish speakers are bilingual. Second, at the level of the speech community, Spanish is involved in a situation of language shift, in which Spanish is continuously abandoned generation by generation. Linguists studying Spanish in the United States want to know if these factors, which research on this topic seem to indicate that, with the exception of lexical-level phenomena, the degree to which English represents both a direct force on and a driving factor of change in Spanish in the United States may be less changes due to English is still a matter of empirical investigation. The influence of English, it is clear, interacts in variegated and nuanced ways not only with the internal linguistic mechanisms of the Spanish grammatical system but also with respect to the influence of Spanish dialects in contact with each other in particular local ecologies.
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The Influence of English on U.S. Spanish
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