Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español en el Mundo

Auteur

Manuel Díaz-Campos is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Indiana University. He has published on the acquisition of sociolinguistic variables in L1, sociolinguistic variation, and topics in Spanish laboratory phonology. His publications include the Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics, the Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics, Introducción a la sociolingüística Hispánica, and Introducción y aplicaciones contextualizadas a la lingüística hispánica. Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy is Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Murcia, Spain, where he teaches English sociolinguistics, dialectology, and the history of English for undergraduate students, as well as sociolinguistic research methods for postgraduates. His books include Sociolinguistic Styles, Diccionario de Sociolingüística, and Metodología de la Investigación Sociolingüística. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics.

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Exploring the linguistic diversity across the whole of the Spanish-speaking world Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español en el Mundo (ENCODES) provides a comprehensive overview of the linguistic features characterizing the dialectal areas of world Spanishes, including the many varieties spoken in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Broad in topical and geographical scope, this unique reference work also addresses Spanish in contact with other languages, including Catalan, Basque, Galician, Portuguese, English, Indigenous languages, and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino). Divided into two parts, the Enciclopedia covers phonological variation, as well as grammatical and lexical variation. In-depth chapters discuss a range of linguistic phenomena both quantitatively and qualitatively. More than 100 entries with up-to-date information on regional, social, ethnic, or contact situations, enable readers to perform comparative analyses across dialectal areas and draw from current data for typological studies.

• Addresses numerous regional varieties of Spanish, including pronunciation, grammatical differences, and lexical-semantic variation
• Offer documenting and mapping sociolinguistic variation among communities in vernacular contexts
• Covers aspects of Spanish typically neglected in the traditional literature, such as varieties spoken in contact with African languages and bilingual areas in contact with Indigenous languages
• Includes extensive references and footnotes throughout Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español en el Mundo is an indispensable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in Spanish, Hispanic linguistics, and Spanish education, as well as related courses in general linguistics, sociolinguistics, and Spanish dialectology, phonetics, and grammar.