ISBN:
9783653047219
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (370 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Language, Identity and Urban Space : The Language Use of Latin American Migrants
DDC:
306.44/261
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Madrid
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Lima
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Lateinamerikanischer Einwanderer
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Identität
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Spanisch
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Sprachkontakt
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Sprachvariante
Abstract:
Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage, migration, space, in particular urban space, and the constitution of cultural identity. Two corpora of Andean migrants' Spanish conversations in Lima and in Madrid are analysed. The resulting comparative analysis provides the material for considerations on language contact, code copying, discourse strategies etc. Throughout the book a
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Acknowledgements; Contents; I Conception of the Project; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The Issue at Hand: Linguistic Interaction in Situations of Migration in Urban Spaces; 1.2 Review of Literature; 1.3 Theoretical Considerations: the Linguistic Ecology Approach; 1.4 Methodology: a Corpus based Approach; 1.5 Implementation of Methodology and Theoretical Approach: The Main Parameters; 1.6 Contact; 1.7 Linguistic Parameters; 1.8 Structure; 2. Theoretical Basis; 2.1 Linguistic Ecology Approach: The Three Levels and their Interrelations; 2.1.1 The Three Level Model
Description / Table of Contents:
2.1.2 Migration as Nexus between the Three Levels2.1.2.1 Interrelations in Space, Migratory Movements and Contact; 2.1.3 Identity as Nexus between the Three Levels; 2.1.4 Identity and Integration; 2.2 The Three Levels of the Linguistic Ecology Approach in Detail; 2.2.1 The Micro Level; 2.2.1.1 Linguistic Interaction, Features and Utterances; 2.2.2 From the Micro to the Meso Level; 2.2.2.1 Discourse Strategies and Feature Pools; 2.2.2.2 Frequency, Markedness and Cognitive Salience; 2.2.3 The Meso Level; 2.2.3.1 Language Contact, Copying and Varieties; 2.2.3.2 Propagation and Linguistic Results
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2.3.3 Perception and Attitudes2.2.4 From the Meso to the Macro Level; 2.2.4.1 Norm; 2.2.4.2 Urban Space, Social Networks and Migrants; 2.2.5 The Macro Level; 2.2.5.1 Historical Influences and Collective Identities; II Analysis of the Spaces; 3. Lima; 3.1 The Meso Level: Society, Socio-Historic Setting and Identity; 3.1.1 Historical Lima; 3.1.2 Constitution and Development of the City of Lima; 3.1.3 Urbanisation, Centralisation, Population; 3.1.4 Political - Administrative and Economic Infrastructure; 3.2 Between Meso and Macro Level: Lima and Peru; 3.2.1 Collective Cultural Identity
Description / Table of Contents:
3.2.2 Cultural Memory3.2.3 Delimiting Structures; 3.3 The Micro Level: The Corpus; 3.3.1 Constitution of the Corpus; 3.3.2 The Analysis: Introduction; 3.3.3 Cognitive Aspects; 3.3.3.1 Phonetics and Phonology; 3.3.3.2 Agreement; 3.3.3.3 Pronouns; 3.3.3.4 TMA; 3.3.3.5 Prepositions; 3.3.3.6 Syntax; 3.3.4 Pragmatic - Discursive Aspects; 3.3.4.1 Discourse Development and Suprasegmentals; 3.3.4.2 Discourse Development and Discourse Particles; 3.3.4.3 Repetitions; 3.3.5 Connectives and Text Structuring; 3.3.6 Situational - Social Aspects; 3.3.6.1 Lexis; 3.3.6.2 Forms of Address in the Verbal Phrase
Description / Table of Contents:
4. Madrid4.1 The Meso Level: Society, Socio-Historic Setting and Identity; 4.1.1 History of Madrid; 4.1.2 Urbanisation, Centralisation, Population; 4.1.3 Administration and Infrastructure in Madrid; 4.1.4 Distribution of Migrants in the Neighbourhoods of Madrid; 4.2 Between the Macro and the Meso Level: Spain and Madrid; 4.2.1 Migratory Movements between Latin America and Spain; 4.2.2 Remittances and Living Conditions; 4.2.3 Contacts before Migration; 4.2.4 Work and Economic Migration; 4.2.5 Return Migration; 4.2.6 Collective Cultural Identity of Migrants
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2.6.1 Migrants' Situation from their Own Perspective
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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