Chapter published in:
Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and EvolutionEdited by Stephen Fafulas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 23] 2020
► pp. 106–126
Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation
Scott Lamanna | Calvin University
This chapter outlines various linguistic phenomena involved in the creation and transmission of ethnolinguistic variation, as a general framework for understanding Amazonian Spanish specifically. Language and dialect contact, second language acquisition, bilingualism, and language shift have all played important roles in the emergence and maintenance of ethnicity-based language varieties around the world, and Amazonian Spanish is certainly no exception. The chapter considers the potential explanatory value of the concept of an ethnolinguistic repertoire (Benor, 2010) when accounting for patterns of variation observed in Amazonian Spanish, and also points out the need to examine the interaction between ethnicity and other relevant social factors such as age, gender, and social class (Wolfram & Schilling, 2016) as speakers index their multifaceted identities.
Keywords: ethnolinguistic variation, Amazonian Spanish, ethnolinguistic repertoire, language contact
Published online: 15 July 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.23.05lam
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.23.05lam
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