The Sociolinguistic Integration of Immigrant Populations: Reflections on Its Study

Abstract

Taking as its main point of departure the research carried out in the Madrid context by the Hispalin-UAH team of the IN.MIGRA2-CM project, the goal of this article is to reflect on the role of the linguistic dimension within the process of the social integration of migrant populations. It trains its sights on the need to work from a cognitive angle which may help to show how those involved in the process construct and re-define the new context, and on the need to consider the host population-as the prime conditioner of the process-and to identify and analyse in depth the components of identity that are modified as a result of cultural contact.

Migración, pluricentrismo y acomodación: Nuevas perspectivas desde la lengua española. Introducción

“…La población de acogida, que representa el grupo mayoritario, también se ve afectada (cf. Ortíz 1987Ortíz [1940Moreno Fernández 2009;Sancho Pascual 2019). Además, no se puede suponer una cultura lingüística uniforme, en el sentido de una única lengua funcional que caracterice a los respectivos grupos, ni en la población migrante ni en la de acogida.…”