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Language Practices and Processes among Latin Americans in Europe is
an innovative and thematically organised collection of studies
dedicated to contemporary sociolinguistic research on Latin
Americans across European contexts. This book captures some of the
language practices and experiences of Spanish-speaking Latin
Americans (SsLAs) across various regions in Europe, addressing
language uses, language ideologies, and experiences with languages
in particular geographical contexts and settings across the ten
chapters. The book provides a new lens to study the
sociolinguistics of the migratory trajectories of Spanish-speaking
Latin American migrants and the situated practices and processes in
which they participate in their host societies. The comprehensive
volume will be of interest to researchers in the area of Spanish
sociolinguistics, sociology of language, and language ideology.
This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the
sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on
different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora.
There is new interest in the ways in which migrants negotiate and
renegotiate identities through their continued interactions with
their own culture back home, in the host country, in similar
diaspora elsewhere, and with the various "new" cultures of the
receiving country. This collection focuses on two broad political
and social contexts: the established Latino communities in urban
settings in North America and newer Latin American communities in
Europe and the Middle East. It explores the role of
migration/diaspora in transforming linguistic practices,
ideologies, and identities.
This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the
sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on
different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora.
There is new interest in the ways in which migrants negotiate and
renegotiate identities through their continued interactions with
their own culture back home, in the host country, in similar
diaspora elsewhere, and with the various "new" cultures of the
receiving country. This collection focuses on two broad political
and social contexts: the established Latino communities in urban
settings in North America and newer Latin American communities in
Europe and the Middle East. It explores the role of
migration/diaspora in transforming linguistic practices,
ideologies, and identities.
The first substantial textbook on pragmatics to focus on Spanish.
The authors discuss key theories within the Anglo-American
tradition of pragmatics, concentrating on the relationship between
language use and socio-cultural contexts, and their uptake by
Hispanists. Drawing on research by foremost scholars in the field,
with reference to a wide range of 'Spanishes', including a first
treatment of 'sociopragmatic variation'. Concepts throughout are
illustrated with real language examples taken from different
Spanish corpora. The book is carefully structured to be appropriate
for upper-level undergraduate, as well as postgraduate, students.
The first substantial textbook on pragmatics to focus on Spanish.
The authors discuss key theories within the Anglo-American
tradition of pragmatics, concentrating on the relationship between
language use and socio-cultural contexts, and their uptake by
Hispanists. Drawing on research by foremost scholars in the field,
with reference to a wide range of 'Spanishes', including a first
treatment of 'sociopragmatic variation'. Concepts throughout are
illustrated with real language examples taken from different
Spanish corpora. The book is carefully structured to be appropriate
for upper-level undergraduate, as well as postgraduate, students.
This is the first monograph to examine mediated business
interaction in Spanish. It focuses on communication between native
speakers of Spanish from different Spanish-speaking countries with
a view to informing our understanding of intercultural
communication in a contemporary business environment. Using
elements of pragmatics with tools from conversation analysis, the
book examines the various activities that telephone
conversationalists engage in to supply and demand a service over
the phone through the mediational means of Spanish by addressing
the following questions. * Do speakers of Spanish display similar
communicative practices as those observed in other languages when
requesting and being offered a service over the phone? * Do
specifically located activities such as the call openings and
closings display similar coordination and ritualisation as that
observed in other languages? * Does the language seen as a cultural
tool reflect a different orientation towards such activities? *
What strategies do telephone agents and (prospective) clients
employ to obtain a sale and either procure the best value for money
or obviate it, respectively? And, what role does intercultural
communication play in the construction of these practices?
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