Book Chapter

Variation and Identity in the Americas

Niño‐Murcia, Mercedes

2011

Overview

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Language and national identities Variation and attitudes of Spanish speakers towards indigenous languages Transnational communities' identities Variation and attitudes among Spanish speakers in the United States Conclusion References

• Publisher: Wiley‐Blackwell
• Subject: Chileans' sensitivity, deep‐seated rivalry ‐ with Peruvian neighbor‐republic / collective identities, incorporating language ‐ collective histories of their speakers / Guatemalans, imitating the way Mexicans speak ‐ establishing an identity, deployed only in public spheres / language and national identities ‐ Social Identity Theory (SIT), in‐group membership characterization, at the expense of the out‐group / Paraguay and MERCOSUR ‐ Paraguay, one‐of‐a‐kind case, quite different from general model of contempt for its indigenous language / sociolinguistic study of language variation and identity ‐ ways in which identity, is mapped onto precise linguistic differences as lexicon, prosody and pronunciation / transnational communities' identities ‐ relationships between languages, no longer being looked at only in geographical space / two models of identity formation ‐ primordialist or essentialist, and constructivist or postmodern / variation and attitudes of Spanish speakers ‐ towards indigenous languages / variation and identity in the Americas ‐ notions of identity, by speakers of Spanish and other languages in the Americas
• ISBN: 1405195002, 9781405195003