Novedad bibliogr áfica Vann, R. E. Materials for the sociolinguistic description and corpus-based study of Spanish in Barcelona

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Novedad bibliográfica
Vann, Robert E. 2009. Materials for the sociolinguistic description
and corpus-based study of Spanish in Barcelona: Toward a documentation
of colloquial Spanish in naturally occurring groups. Lewiston, NY: The
Edwin Mellen Press (ISBN: ISBN10: 0-7734-4871-3, ISBN13:
978-0-7734-4871-1, Nº de páginas: 300, Precio: US $109.95, 80,90
euros).
Compra-e: http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7700&pc=9
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Descripción

This book reflects on the Spanish of Catalonia and furnishes
documentary resources for studying colloquial Spanish spoken in
naturally occurring social groups in Barcelona.

Part I addresses many complex issues necessary to appropriately
contextualize Spanish language usage in Barcelona and linguistic
analysis of such usage, with discussions of language contact,
ethnolinguistic identities, language ideologies, ways of speaking,
corpus-based research, fieldwork methodology, and speaker profiles.

Part II presents the first known publication of orthographically
transcribed spoken language corpus data from colloquial Spanish
conversations in naturally occurring social groups in Catalonia.

Despite previous explicit calls for such publications, Spanish in
Catalonia still remains largely unrecognized in Spanish dialectology.
By providing substantial transcripts of spoken language data,
metadata, and general access resources to document actual ways of
speaking Spanish in Barcelona, this monograph provides a linguistic
record that both recognizes the legitimacy of this Spanish dialect and
facilitates its linguistic description and analysis. The volume thus
contributes to scholarship in Spanish sociolinguistics and
dialectology, documentary linguistics, anthropological linguistics,
and the sociology of language. This work will appeal to academics
worldwide in these and related fields (e.g., contact linguistics,
discourse analysis, Hispanic studies, and Catalan studies), to Spanish
teachers, and to the community studied.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Montserrat Casanovas Catalá, Ph.D.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I   Critical introduction to the Vann corpus

Chapter 1  Brief history of the political economy of language in Catalonia
1.0. Introduction
1.1. The historical formation of Catalan habitus
1.1.1. Nationalism and the development of Catalonia
1.1.2. Early history: Origins and empire
1.1.3. Middle history: Decline and incorporation into Spain
1.1.4. Modern history: Political struggle and economic boom
1.1.5. War, Francoism, and repression
1.1.6. The post-Franco years
1.2. Catalan linguistic habitus and market in modern-day Catalonia
1.2.1. Language, identity and ideology
1.2.2. Ethnic differentiation and linguistic expressions of identity
1.2.3. Symbolic capital, symbolic power, and speaking Spanish

Chapter 2  Language ideologies in academic treatment of Catalan Spanish
2.0. Introduction
2.1. Academic treatment of Catalan Spanish during the Franco era
2.1.1. Symbolic domination and the power of naming
2.1.2. Ideologies of linguistic correctness in Spanish dialectology
2.2. Post-Francoist academic treatment of Catalan Spanish
2.2.1. Academic discourse in Spain
2.2.1.1. The Spanish of Catalonia as broken Castilian Spanish
2.2.1.2. The Spanish of Catalonia as a regional Spanish
2.2.2. Academic discourse outside of Spain

Chapter 3  Spoken language corpora of Spanish in Catalonia
3.0. Introduction
3.1. The term corpus in linguistic research
3.2. Published corpora of Spanish spoken near and in Catalonia
3.2.1. Corpora without transcribed Spanish discourse in Catalonia
3.2.1.1. Spoken language corpora of Peninsular Spanish
3.2.1.2. Spoken language corpora of Spanish in Valencia
3.2.2. Corpora with transcribed Spanish discourse in Catalonia
3.2.2.1. The Vila corpus (2001)
3.2.2.2. The Sinner corpus (2001)
3.3. Values, uses, and benefits of the Vann corpus

Chapter 4  Corpus-based linguistic descriptions of Catalan Spanish
4.0. Introduction
4.1. Pronunciation
4.2. Vocabulary
4.2.1. Borrowings
4.2.2. Calques
4.2.3. Semantic-pragmatic extensions
4.2.4. Preserved archaisms and words of unusually high frequency
4.2.5. Innovative vocabulary unrelated to linguistic transfer
4.3. Grammar
4.4. Ways of using Spanish in Catalonia

Chapter 5  Methods of data collection, digitization, and transcription 91
5.0. Introduction
5.1. Collecting field recordings for the corpus
5.2. Digitizing the field recordings
5.2.1. Digitization software
5.2.2. Digitization hardware
5.3. Transcribing the digital audio recordings
5.3.1. Transcription methodology
5.3.2. Transcription information technology
5.4. Best practice

Chapter 6  Network profiles and select speaker data for the Vann corpus
6.0. Introduction
6.1. Network profiles
6.1.1. Central individuals
6.1.2. Network members
6.2. Select speaker data

Part II   Selected transcripts from the Vann corpus

1. Colloquial group conversation from Mónica’s personal network
2. Colloquial group conversation from Silvia’s personal network

Bibliography
Index

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