The Emergence of Standard Spanish in the American Continent: Implications for Latin American Dialectology  

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Hidalgo, Margarita

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 14 no. 1 (1990), page 47-63.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/14 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The circumstances that intervened in the formation of the standard variety of Spanish in the American continent included the essentially urban character of the Conquest, the social and educational background of early immigrants from Spain, the prestige of Spanish in the sixteenth century, and the strong positive attitudes of the conquistadores toward their mother tongue. This paper outlines the most relevant phonological features of Castilian Spanish for the history of Spanish-American dialects, the traditional dichotomy of cultured and popular speech modes and the impact of the Spanish written norm on researchers' perceptions of Spanish-American dialects. Addressing the linguistic and sociopsychological gaps between the standard variety of Spanish and its respective marginal dialects in the American subcontinent, and highlighting the historically perceived hiatus between mainstream and popular Spanish, it assumes: (1) the existence of a relatively homogeneous dialect used in the most formal spheres of public interaction in modern urban communities, and (2) the progressive emergence of a "rurban" dialect with features of both educated and noneducated Spanish. Finally, given the rapid structural changes of Latin American society in general, it proposes new directions for the study of social and geographic dialects in the major urban centers of the continent.

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