33.2668, Books: Spanish English contact in the Falkland Islands: Rodriguez

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Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:48:15
From: Tessa Arneri [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Spanish English contact in the Falkland Islands: Rodriguez

 


Title: Spanish English contact in the Falkland Islands 
Subtitle: An ethnographic approach to loanwords & place names 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/spanish-english-contact-in-the-falkland-islands 


Author: Yliana Rodriguez

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934063 Pages: 211 Price: Europe EURO 31


Abstract:

Language contact has presumably had an impact on all of the world’s languages.
This PhD thesis provides a thorough description of the lexical outcomes of the
contact between the arguably young American Spanish with the youngest variety
of Southern Hemisphere Englishes, thus closing a gap in the literature on
Spanish and English as contact languages.

Situated at the crossroads of toponomastics, lexical semantics and language
attitudes, and embedded within a theoretical framework of contact linguistics,
this thesis addresses the contact history of Falkland Islands English with
Spanish, and examines to what extent such contact played a part in the shaping
of the archipelago’s official language. In order to do so, an innovative
mixed-methods approach is used with the purpose of broadening the analytical
depth of the results. Furthermore, a range of sources are used, i.e., archival
research, literature reviews, and ethnographic fieldwork.

The findings show that (i) Spanish-English contact in the Falklands has left
two main linguistic products: loanwords and place names; (ii) even though the
Falklands currently host an English-speaking community, the Islands have a
long history of Spanish-speaking settlers; (iii) Spanish loanwords are mainly
related to horse tack and horse types, and most words are tightly connected to
gaucho vernacular but not exclusively with their equestrian duties; and (iv)
Falkland Islands English hosts a handful of loanwords that are originally from
autochthonous South American languages.

This dissertation will be of interest to scholars working on language contact,
toponomastics, world Englishes, and in ethnolinguistic approaches to data
collection.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)


Written In: English  (eng)

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