Introducción a la sociolingüística hispánica

Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica is a much–needed introduction for undergraduates to the study of sociolinguistics in the Spanish–speaking world. The book is written in Spanish, with an intended audience of second– and heritage–language speakers, so is paced accordingly with a minimum of jargon. The chapters are organized into sections covering the major sociolinguistic subfields, including foundations concepts for sociolinguistics, phonological variation, morpho–syntactic variation, language in contact, code switching, bilingualism, Spanish in the United States, language attitudes, language and power and ideology, language and the law, and language and gender. In exploring the social meaning of language choices, each chapter provides an outline of topics covered, an introduction, a review of topics, a summary, a section of key terms, exercises and questions on the material, and a selected bibliography. In addition, all chapters are complemented with data analysis exercises and small hands–on projects for practicing the theoretical concepts presented, using electronic databases, popular music and audiovisual material.

Agradecimientos ix Capítulo 1 Aspectos fundamentales para entender la sociolingüística 1 Capítulo 2 Lengua, edad, género y nivel socioeconómico 30 Capítulo 3 El estudio de la variación sociofonológica 65 Capítulo 4 La variación sociofonológica en el mundo hispanohablante 90 Capítulo 5 Variación morfosintáctica 123 Capítulo 6 La variación morfosintáctica y el signifi cado social en el mundo hispanohablante 154 Capítulo 7 Lenguas en contacto 179 Capítulo 8 Bilingüismo y español en los Estados Unidos 214 Capítulo 9 El español como lengua de herencia 241 Capítulo 10 Actitudes e identidad lingüísticas 266 Capítulo 11 La lengua y las leyes 296 Índice de tópicos 319

Manuel Díaz–Campos is Associate Professor of Hispanic Sociolinguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published on the acquisition of sociolinguistic variables in L1, sociolinguistic variation, acquisition of second language phonology, and topics in Spanish laboratory phonology. He is the editor of The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics (Wiley–Blackwell, 2011).