Survey Research in Catalonia: Bilingualism and Bias

O'Donnell, Paul

doi:10.3828/catr.3.2.6

Catalan Review

1989

DOI: 10.3828/catr.3.2.6

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Survey Research in Catalonia: Bilingualism and Bias

Paul O'Donnell¹

Abstract: Catalan Review is the premier international scholarly journal devoted to all aspects of Catalan culture. By Catalan culture is understood all manifestations of intellectual and artistic life produced in the Catalan language or in the geographical areas where Catalan is spoken. Catalan Review has been in publication since 1986. Esteu accedint a l'Arxiu Digital del Catalan ReviewA l' accedir i / o utilitzar aquest Arxiu Digital, vostè accepta i es compromet a complir els termes i condicions d'ús disponibles a ht… Show more

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Aspects of Spanish deictic expressions in Barcelona: A quantitative examination

Vann

1998

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This sociolinguistic investigation analyzes an innovative usage of Spanish motion verbs, demonstratives, and locatives in Barcelona that involves crosslinguistic pragmatic transfer. Speakers in the two social networks examined (N = 58) use these Spanish deictics following pragmatic rules that generally correspond to the rules for their Catalan counterparts. Quantitative analysis demonstrates that this innovative usage of the Spanish deictics is not predictable from the lexical form of the deictic systems in both languages. Multiple regression analysis (SPSS) demonstrates that as relative exposure to Catalan increases so does the amount of innovative usage observed, although degree of integration into a Catalan social network and degree of Catalanist ideology do not affect such usage. Qualitatively, this innovative usage is a linguistic marker of a unique contact variety of Spanish spoken in Catalonia (i.e., Catalan Spanish). In this variety, such usage represents a potential resource for performing Catalan identity.Linguistic stereotypes associated with Catalan people when they speak Spanish abound in Spain (Badia i Margarit, 1975). One such feature is a marked accent in Spanish pronunciation, which may include any of the following notable characteristics: lowering (opening) of stressed mid vowels / e / and / o / ; reduction of nonstressed / e / and /a/ to schwa; raising of nonstressed / o / to / u / ; confusion of / s / and / 0 / ; and velarization of/I/. Another such feature is extensive code mixing and the use, in Spanish, of lexical borrowings and caiques from Catalan. For example, in Catalonia some people use the Spanish expression por eso to mean 'nevertheless' on the basis of Catalan per aixd, whereas the usual Spanish meaning of por eso is 'that is why'. The Spanish of Catalonia also displays innovative morphosyntactic features. One such feature involves norms for the usage of the subjunctive mood. At times, people in Catalonia use the indicative mood in Spanish where monolingual Castilian Spanish speakers would use the subjunctive. This occurs after i/clauses, temporal adverbs such as cuando 'when', and certain I would like to acknowledge the aid of the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, Subvention No. 1490, whose support helped make this research possible. I would also like to thank two anonymous LVC reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions.A related article, "Pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects of Spanish deictic expressions in

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Aspects of Spanish deictic expressions in Barcelona: A quantitative examination

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1998

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La introducción del anglicismo berry/berries en el español de Chile: historia, proceso integrativo y consecuencias semánticas

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Salas

2020

Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie

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Lexical innovation is a continuous creative phenomenon which evinces language vitality. In today’s Spanish, borrowing words from other languages is a fruitful innovation mechanism. In Chilean Spanish, a significant portion of lexical neology comes from English loanwords, a fact that may be attributed in part to the global, open-market model upon which the country bases its economy. In this context and because of its linguistic and cultural relevance, we established the development process of the English loanword berry/berries in Chilean Spanish. To this end, this paper presents an analysis of the sociohistorical background that gave rise to the introduction of this Anglicism in Chile. This mixed-methods research includes the analysis of texts, interviews, surveys and field study. A contrastive lexicographic description of berry and its equivalents in Spanish is provided, the role of different types of speakers —from experts to laypeople— is analyzed in relation to the incorporation of this neologism in Chilean Spanish, the occurrence of different existing denominations is examined, some neologicity indicators are analyzed, possible combinations of berry/berries with other elements are classified, and the evolution of this Anglicism in Chilean Spanish use is confirmed.

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Survey Research in Catalonia: Bilingualism and Bias

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Aspects of Spanish deictic expressions in Barcelona: A quantitative examination

Aspects of Spanish deictic expressions in Barcelona: A quantitative examination

La introducción del anglicismo berry/berries en el español de Chile: historia, proceso integrativo y consecuencias semánticas

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