Beschreibung
This book analyses and compares the language use of Spanish speaking migrants in Lima and Madrid through corpora and uses a feature pool approach to language contact that is based on principles of linguistic ecology. It defines the interrelations of language and identity constitution and discusses the question of migrants’ cultural integration.
Autorenportrait
Tabea Salzmann studied Spanish and Indology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima (Peru) and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi (India). She has been a researcher at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in cooperation with the Université de Montréal (Canada) and the Hermann-Paul-School of Linguistics in Freiburg (Germany).
Inhalt
Inhalt: Migration investigation Latin America – Europe – Language contact Spanish varieties – Theoretical model based on principles of linguistic ecology and the idea of feature pools – Linguistic analysis of migrants’ speech in Lima and Madrid – Context analysis Lima and Madrid – Migrants’ constitution of identity – Cultural integration.
