Sociolingstica y pragmtica del espaol - Carmen Silva-Corvaln

This book provides an overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. Drawing on the research of foremost scholars in the field, Carmen Silva-Corvalan covers central concerns of variational sociolinguistcs, discourse analyses, language change, and language contact, with special reference to Spanish in the United States.;A revised and expanded version of Silva-Corvalan's 1989 study, "Sociolinguistica: teoria y analisis", the book includes quantitative and qualitative analyses, and it documents such ongoing issues as language change in monolingual and bilingual communities, the nature of phonetic and syntactic variation, and modes of data collection and analysis. New topics include pragmatics and discourse analysis, discourse markers, and sociolinguistics and education.;Written in Spanish, the text provides students and sociolinguistic researchers with an overview of the social aspects of language as well as empirical data on Spanish linguistcs. Complete with exercises at the end of each chapter and a subject index, the book is appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of Spanish throughout the world.