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Spanish and Portuguese across Time, Place, and Borders

Studies in Honor of Milton M. Azevedo

  • Laura Callahan
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Linguistics and Literature: Translation, Society, and Language Variation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. “Ah jist likes, dinnae ken how ye do it.” Translating the Literary Dialect of Trainspotting into Spanish
      Ricardo Muñoz Martín
      Pages 3-19
    3. Queer Geographies: Federico García Lorca’s “Oda a Walt Whitman” in English Translation
      Anna E. Hiller
      Pages 20-36
    4. Pedro Muñoz Seca (1881–1936): The Comic Effect of the Grotesque
      Rakhel Villamil-Acera
      Pages 37-50
    5. The Predicaments of Transculturation: A Materialist Reading of “Meu tio o Iauaretê” by João Guimarães Rosa
      Alfredo Cesar Melo
      Pages 51-62
    6. Discourse and Ideology—Why Do We Need Both?
      Simo K. Määttä
      Pages 63-77
    7. Representation of Charrúa Speech in Nineteenth-Century Uruguayan Literature
      Magdalena Coll
      Pages 78-92
    8. The Dialect of Vargas Llosa’s Storyteller
      Sonia Montes Romanillos
      Pages 93-107
    9. Orality in Literature: Cuban-American Spanish in La vida es un special 1.50. 75 by Roberto G. Fernández
      Martha Mendoza
      Pages 108-122

  3. Language Change, Language Contact, and Language Users

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 123-123
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    2. The Ideology of Standardization in Early Modern Castile: The Unknown Oservaciones de la lengua castellana and the Attack on castellanos viejos
      Vicente Lledó-Guillem
      Pages 125-144
    3. Geographic and Sociolinguistic Variables in the Seseo of Murcia
      Juan A. Sempere Martínez
      Pages 145-160
    4. Morphological Simplification in Latin American Spanish: The Demise of -se and the Triumph of -ra in the Past Subjunctive in Colonial New Spain
      Israel Sanz-Sánchez
      Pages 161-182
    5. Linguistic Continuity along the Uruguayan-Brazilian Border: Monolingual Perceptions of a Bilingual Reality
      Ana M. Carvalho
      Pages 183-199
    6. Portuguese for L1 English-L2 Spanish Speakers: The Effectiveness of “Tá Falado” Podcast Lessons
      Orlando R. Kelm
      Pages 200-214
    7. Face Work in Spanish Language Service Encounters between Native and Nonnative Speakers in the United States
      Laura Callahan
      Pages 215-235
  4. Back Matter
    Pages 236-239
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About this book

Introduction

Spanish and Portuguese Across Time covers a diverse range of topics with a common focus, on the dynamic nature of languages and the social forces that shape them across time, place, and borders, and demonstrates how linguistic principles can offer productive angles to the study of literature.

Keywords

Spanish Portuguese Literature Language Variation English translation

Editors and affiliations

  • Laura Callahan
    • 1
  1. 1.The City College of New YorkUSA

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