VARIACIÓN. Revista de variación y cambio lingüistico

APPLYING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY POLICIES TO THE WRITING OF COURSE GUIDES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA (SPAIN)

Ana Martín-Macho Harrison — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Spanish society’s growing awareness of sexism is reflected in different spheres. Among them, egalitarian language has recently become a polarised debate, the extremes of which are the normative and sociolinguistic positions. Given the need to adopt a more nuanced view of the relationship between grammatical gender and sexism (Escandell-Vidal, 2020), after defining the relationship between sex, grammatical gender and sociocultural gender, this article sets out the normative and sociolinguistic arguments regarding generic masculine in Spanish. It also explores the evolution of proposals such as the neuter morpheme -e. Arguments are presented in favour of the suitability of the course guide to comply with the legal framework that establishes both the use of egalitarian language and the defence of equality and diversity at UCLM. Some complementary guidelines and materials to the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE)’s Recommendations for the Appropriate Use of Language in Universities and the UCLM's Guidelines for non-sexist language are provided. Finally, a checklist applicable to any course guide for compliance with current equality regulations is proposed. Beyond language, it includes suggestions for sections such as competences and bibliography.

/s/ aspiration in Andalusian Spanish in word internal position and across word boundaries: an experimental study of four cities

Paul O'Neill — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This study presents acoustic data relating to the realisation of coda /s/ in four cities in Andalusia. It differs from the majority of recent studies in that it analyses the effects of coda /s/ on all types of consonants, both word-internally and across word-boundaries. In the latter context, different morphological values of /s/ are also analysed. The results suggest that the phonological system of Andalusian Spanish is being radically altered. In word internal position, the historical effects of /s/ aspiration are producing a series of new incipient phonemic distinctions of which the most robust are elongated and/or aspirated consonants. As for across word-boundaries, the findings are only significantly different from word-internal coda /s/ for the city of Seville. For the speech of this city, it seems that /s/ has been lost / is being lost when it is a marker of 2sg on verbs and plural on nouns. However, when /s/ is part of lexeme, i.e. in the word dos ‘two’, the phonetic cues are robust and similar to those in word-internal position. I end the article with a tentative hypothesis as to how this situation could be effecting the morphological system and point to possible future developments.

A Brief Outline of the History of Polish-Spanish Lexicography

Dr.ª — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article aims to familiarize the Spanish-speaking reader with the Spanish-Polish lexicography and its history. As lexicography is a faithful mirror of human contacts, we begin with a historical sketch of contacts between Poland and Spain. The main part is a lexicographical overview from the first multilingual works of the 16th-17th centuries, in which Spanish appears alongside Polish, to the 20th century when the first bilingual dictionaries appear. The description attempts to present, as far as possible, both the macro and microstructure of the works. The last part is dedicated to the most recent projects: applications or multimedia dictionaries. The methodology applied, given the nature of the article, is merely descriptive and historiographical. For the same reason, eventual conclusions may be based on new lines of research into the works presented or on potential lexicographical works that may complete the panorama here sketched.

Hypercorrection of /-s/ in Almería Spanish

Francisco García Marcos — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The dialectological bibliography recorded a profound process of weakening and fall of /-s/ in the southern realizations of Spanish. The solutions adopted, precisely, were one of the indicators of the internal linguistic division in Andalusia. While the western part preferred aspiration, the eastern part was an area of absolute loss, with the consequent opening and/or lengthening of the preceding vowel. Sociolinguistics demonstrated that empirical reality was significantly more complex. In 1984 H. López Morales presented a crucial work, with materials from the core of the eastern part, which nevertheless included achievements that until then were unthinkable for dialectologists, with significant aspirational quotas, even with the maintenance of the sibilant. This last possibility emerged as a constant in the Spanish of the capital of Almería, with a considerably higher occurrence rate than in neighboring areas. Both in research on attitudes and in work on acting, the possibility was raised that it was a case of hypercorrection, given that the sibilant served as a marker of Central Peninsular Spanish, with the prestige that this has traditionally been associated with in Andalusia. In the present investigation, a systematic study of this variant has been carried out. To do this, new empirical samples have been taken and a classic variationist study has been proposed. The results confirm the existence of this pattern, while allowing us to predict its gradual disappearance, in favor of a process of internal convergence within Andalusia.

Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe, Borja Alonso Pascua, Francisco Escudero Paniagua, Carolina Martín Gallego y Gema Belén Garrido Vílchez (Eds.) (2023). De Estepa a Salamanca: miradas en torno a la lengua. Homenaje a José Gómez Asencio. Salamanca: Ediciones U

Víctor Manuel González Caro, Pablo Galindo Cortés, Julián González Moreno — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Aníbal Martín (2023). Yo hablo, ellas cantorin. Las aventuras de un extremeño por los caminos de la diversidad lingüística. Editorial Pie de Página. 271 pp. ISBN: 9788412715804 1017-1.

Nerea Serrano Santiago, José Antonio Rubio Nogales, Weicong Sun — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Mª Mar Galindo y Mª Carmen Méndez (Eds.) (2022). La lingüística del amor: de la pasión a la palabra. Editorial Pie de Página. 330 pp. ISBN: 978-84-124060-2-3.

María Machado Contreras, María Jesús Lucena Martín, Huijuan Xie — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Rocío Cruz Ortiz (2022). Sociofonética andaluza: Caracterización lingüística de los presidentes y ministros de Andalucía en el Gobierno de España (1923-2011). Berlín: De Gruyter, 218 págs. ISBN: 9783110792669.

Andrea Camacho Pérez de Navarro — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Ana Estrada, Beatriz Martín y Carlota de Benito (Eds.) (2022). Como dicen en mi pueblo: el habla de los pueblos españoles. (1a ed.). Editorial Pie de página. 232 pp. ISBN: 978841240602061

Cristian Corujo Betanco, Fuli Zhao — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

PHONETIC VARIATION AND TEACHING OF SPANISH

Dolors Poch Olivé — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This work aims to reflect on how the phonetic variation of Spanish can be integrated into the framework of teaching the language to foreigners. First, the pan-Hispanic perspective that conceives the language as a mosaic of varieties is presented and then, from this dynamic perspective, we reflect on the factors that condition the variation: geography, the sociocultural level of the speakers and the pragmatic aspects of the communication situation. Language contact is also introduced as a variation factor given the large number of languages that coexist with Spanish in the Spanish-speaking geography. Finally, a proposal aimed at teachers is presented that is conceived as a way of integrating phonetic variation in Spanish courses.

“ALGUNA GENTE INTERPRETÓ MUY MAL CUANDO YO DIJE LO DEL NO ROTUNDO EN LO DE LA AMNISTÍA”. LO DE + NP: RECONSIDERING EVIDENTIALITY AND LINGUISTIC VARIATION

Alf Monjour — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The concept of evidentiality refers, as it is known, to that linguistic category, observed in certain languages, by which the source of the information reported in the statement is marked morphologically. Other languages –such as Spanish– use certain lexical and
morphosyntactic mechanisms for similar purposes, including some structures with referential elements or neutral demonstratives, i.e. lo de + NP, eso de + NP, esto de + NP, and aquello de + NP. The aim is to determine, based on oral and written corpora, the position of these evidentiality markers within the variational architecture of the language. Thus, notable differences can be observed between the frequency of use of the four structures, a greater representation of these structures in Spain compared to other Hispanic countries, and the irrelevance, when explaining their frequency of use, of sociolinguistic factors such as the level of education, gender, and age of the speakers. Finally, the most characteristic feature of these evidential markers (except for aquello de + NPa) will be highlighted as its rooting in the oral discourse and the typical registers of informality, as well as in their recreation through strategies of feigned orality.

Juan Manuel Ribes Lorenzo (2022). Las palabras diacríticas en fraseología histórica. Peter Lang. 444 pp. ISBN: 978-3-631-87146-1.

Obdulia Cantero Jiménez, Laura Delgado Barranco, Fatou Samb — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Doina Repede (2022). Corpus oral para el estudio sociolingüístico de hablantes peruanos en la ciudad de Sevilla (PERUSEV). Editorial Universidad de Sevilla. 617 pp. ISBN: 978-84-472-2347-3.

Iman Ahmed Habiby, Sabino Martín Fernádez, HaoLi Zhao — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

José Luis Ramírez Luengo (Ed.) (2021). Estudios sobre la historia léxica del español de América. UJA Editorial. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-849159462-8.

Lei Wang, Manuel Eduardo Orjuela Tovar — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Silvia Iglesias Recuero (Coord.) (2022). Pragmática histórica del español. Formas de tratamiento, actos de habla y construcción del diálogo. Editorial Universidad de Sevilla. 283 pp. ISBN: 978-84-472-2251-3.

Lourdes Pérez Sánchez, María del Mar Saeta Marcos, Zhang Shuqing, Zhong Yiqi — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Fr. Javier Herrero Ruiz de Loizaga, Mª Elena Azofra Sierra y Rosario González Pérez(Eds.) (2022). La configuración histórica del discurso: nuevas perspectivas en los procesos de gramaticalización, lexicalización y pragmaticalización. Iberoamericana Vervuert. 328 pp. ISBN: 978‐84‐9192‐281‐0.

Xu Ye, Elena Larred Moratalla, Zhang Xinyue — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

María Victoria Galloso Camacho, Manuel Cabello Pino y María Heredia Mantis (Eds.) (2023). Funciones y aplicación didáctica del paisaje lingüístico andaluz. Iberoamericana Vervuert. 262 pp. ISBN: 978-84-9192-313-8.

Ainhoa Vílchez Bone, Eva Pons Frías, Nicole Lesbino, Qianxun Wang — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Manuel Galeote y Miguel Figueroa‐Saavedra (2022). Fray Alonso de Molina, Aqui comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana (México, 1555). Editorial Verbum. 602 pp. ISBN: 978‐84‐133‐7827‐5.

Rafael Nevado Gómez — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Study of murcian verbs in the academic dictionary

María Teresa Palazón Carrión — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this study, Murcian verbs listed in the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (DRAE) are analyzed in a lexicographical review with prospective and retrospective methodologies. This takes as a starting point all verbs with Murcian entries in the 1992 edition of the DRAE (DRAE, 1992). The analysis produced a dataset showing the continuity or elimination of some terms, such as “escaldufar” and “arrufaldarse”, as well as the incorporation of terms present in the dialect’s lexicographical works but not in the Academy’s, as in the case of “cantusear”. Cases where several geographical areas share meaning for the same verb are also described.

Madeira-Galicia: Anthroponymy, toponymy, linguistic patrimony and variation in orographic lexemes with phonetic phenomena

Helena Rebelo — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Madeira Archipelago was populated in the fifteenth century by mostly Portuguese, in waves from both the South and the North of Portugal. Minho seems to be one of the regions that brought the most settlers. In that century, Galicia was following a different path from that of Portugal. However, because it is not far from this northern Portuguese territory, and because of the constant contacts of the populations above and below the Minho, it may have had some participation in this movement of people. Not infrequently, one hears a Madeiran talking about the presence of Galicians in the archipelagic territory. In fact, there are those who testify that they have a Galician origin, which may mean that this connection is maintained by the centuries. Can the linguistic patrimony, especially the anthroponymy, the toponymy, but also the lexicon of an area such as the orography, show traces of the Galician presence in the Madeiran territory? Can linguistic variation, through phonetic phenomena, be an explanation for a possible linguistic approximation?