33.2169, Books: HISPANICISMS IN ROMANCE FICTION: GONZÁLEZ-CRUZ

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Subject: 33.2169, Books: HISPANICISMS IN ROMANCE FICTION: GONZÁLEZ-CRUZ

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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:53:19
From: MARÍA-ISABEL GONZÁLEZ-CRUZ [isabel.gonzalezcruz at ulpgc.es]
Subject: HISPANICISMS IN ROMANCE FICTION: GONZÁLEZ-CRUZ

 


Title: HISPANICISMS IN ROMANCE FICTION 
Subtitle: AN ANNOTATED GLOSSARY 
Series Title: The Edwin Mellen Press  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
	   
	

Book URL: http://mellenpress.com/author/maria-isabel-gonzalez-cruz/8471/ 


Author: MARÍA-ISABEL GONZÁLEZ-CRUZ

Hardback: ISBN:  9781495509704 Pages: 195 Price: U.S. $ 159.95


Abstract:

Conceived as a contribution to the studies on the role of Spanish as a
loan-giver language, this volume offers an annotated glossary with all the
Spanish words and expressions that occur in a corpus of 36 English popular
romances published mostly by Harlequin and Mills & Boon between 1955 and 2004.

These novels, which were totally or partially set in the Canary Islands
(Spain), belong to the corpus compiled for a research project
(FFI2014-53962-P) that collected and studied these specific literary texts,
approaching them from an interdisciplinary perspective, and focusing on the
variety of discourses that pervade them. Romance ficiton enjoys a wide
international readership and impressive sales figures, despite their double
stigma for being both feminine and popular. This justifies their role as
reliable lexical sources. Interestingly, their plots deal with engaging issues
that go beyond love or gender relationships, such as intercultural
relationships, identity and otherness, paradise discourse and environmental
awareness, and they can function as textual representations of English/Spanish
socio-cultural and linguistic encounters.
  
It is worth noticing that the justification for the interest of this work
constitutes at the same time the author's main claim: the fact that by using
so many Hispanicisms, these romance novels set in the Canaries function as a
very effective channel for the diffusion of Spanish lexicon among their large
readership throughout the Anglosphere.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)


Written In: English  (eng)

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