Spanish in Context

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ORCID logoFrancisco Moreno-Fernández | Universidad de Alcalá & Heidelberg University
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ORCID logoPatricia Bou-Franch | Universitat de València
ORCID logoRosina Márquez Reiter | The Open University, UK
ORCID logoKim Potowski | University of Illinois at Chicago
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ORCID logoIsolda E. Carranza | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Spanish in Context publishes original theoretical, empirical and methodological studies into pragmatics and sociopragmatics, variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse and conversation analysis, functional contextual analyses, bilingualism, and crosscultural and intercultural communication with the aim of extending our knowledge of Spanish and of these disciplines themselves.

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Latest articles

16 April 2024

  • Non-modal voice quality in Chilean Spanish
    Mariška Bolyanatz
  • La generación ÓSEA : Usos modales e interactivos en una microdiacronía
    Krístel Guirado

    • 2 April 2024

  • Los vocativos contraculturales : Cambios paradigmáticos y difusión hasta el español coloquial actual
    Fien De Latte

    • 28 March 2024

  • Del rollo como sustantivo comodín contracultural al rollo aproximador en el español coloquial actual
    Ana Llopis Cardona &  Marlies Jansegers
  • Culturas juveniles, contracultura y procesos de difusión en el español coloquial : Reflexiones previas y contribuciones
    Ana Llopis Cardona

    • 22 March 2024

  • Anglicismos en el contexto contracultural de las historietas gráficas de los años 70 y su evolución : El caso de la revista Star
    David Giménez Folqués

    • 7 March 2024

  • Fases y factores socioculturales en la difusión de tío/tía como vocativos : “juvenilización” del español coloquial actual
    Ana Llopis Cardona &  Salvador Pons Bordería

    • 27 February 2024

  • Gianluca Pontrandolfo &  Sara Piccioni . 2022. Comunicación especializada y divulgación en la red: aproximaciones basadas en corpus
    Reseña de Analía Beatriz Espeche | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 651–658

    • 22 February 2024

  • Gibran Delgado-Díaz . 2021. The evolution of Spanish past forms
    Reviewed by Nicholas M. Blaker | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 642–650

    • 13 February 2024

  • Los puertorriqueños se les está cayendo la “a” : Variably marked datives in Puerto Rican Spanish
    Jessica Vélez Avilés | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 438–463

    • 29 January 2024

  • Manuel Díaz-Campos &  Sandro Sessarego (eds.). 2021. Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology. In honor of Terrell A. Morgan
    Reseña de Rosnátaly Avelino Sierra | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 633–641

    • 9 January 2024

  • The role of perceptual salience in a strengthening sound change : A comparison of /j/ perception by Colombian and Dominican listeners
    Nofiya Denbaum-Restrepo &  Eliot Raynor | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 411–437

    • 21 December 2023

  • Partículas discursivas y prosodia : Los marcadores de control de contacto ¿sabes? y ¿entiendes?
    Antonio Hidalgo &  Antonio Briz Gómez | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 513–549
  • Discourse markers in Spanish in the Tijuana-San Diego border area
    R. Mata &  John Moore | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 464–489

    • 12 December 2023

  • Stativity and inchoativity : The undiscussed key role of estar in Old Spanish
    Mª Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia &  Josep Ausensi | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 343–366

    • 11 December 2023

  • Patrones relacionales de la expresión de la epistemicidad y la gestión de la imagen en el español peninsular
    Marta Gancedo Ruiz &  M.ª Amparo Soler Bonafont | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 550–573

    • 6 December 2023

  • Intervocalic /ɡ/ realization in Border Uruguayan Spanish
    Michael Gradoville , Mark Waltermire , Audrey Chery , Sofía Fernandez &  Avizia Long | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 490–512

    • 14 November 2023

  • First person singular subject pronoun expression of young Spanish speakers from Quito, Ecuador
    Leslie Del Carpio | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 574–598

    • 2 November 2023

  • Cognitive underpinnings of the meaning of Spanish estar : Implications for its diachronic change
    María Mercedes Piñango &  Martín Fuchs | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 367–388
  • The case for broader copulas : Evidence from Spanish, Tsez, and more
    Daniel Wilson | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 389–410

    • 30 October 2023

  • Introduction
    Silvia Gumiel-Molina &  Isabel Pérez-Jiménez | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 251–256

    • 31 August 2023

  • Juan Eduardo Bonnin . 2019. Discourse and Mental Health: Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings
    Reviewed by Dalia Magaña | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 626–632

    • 24 August 2023

  • Estar+ILP : Testing the experiential commitment
    M. Victoria Escandell-Vidal | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 257–281

    • 27 July 2023

  • Perspectivized estar-sentences with aesthetic adjectives across American Spanish varieties
    Silvia Gumiel-Molina , Norberto Moreno-Quibén &  Isabel Pérez-Jiménez | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 313–342

    • 13 July 2023

  • Óscar Loureda , Adriana Cruz , Inés Recio &  Martha Rudka . 2021. Comunicación, partículas discursivas y pragmática experimental
    Reseña de Silva María Luisa | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 241–249

    • 7 July 2023

  • Acquisition of estar + adjective in L2 Spanish by L1 French and Portuguese speakers
    Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes , José Amenós-Pons &  Aoife Ahern | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 282–312
  • Phonic mitigation markers for disagreement in interviews of university learners of Spanish as foreign language
    María Isabel Medina Soler &  María Cecilia Ainciburu | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 26–49
  • Luisa Martín Rojo &  Joan Pujolar (eds.). 2020. Claves para entender el multilingüismo contemporáneo
    Reseña de Luci Nussbaum | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 232–240

    • 13 June 2023

  • Perceptions of inclusive language in the Spanish of the Southeast : Data from a large classroom project
    Jim Michnowicz , Rebecca Ronquest , Bailey Armbrister , Nick Chisholm , Rebecca Green , Lindsey Bull &  Anne Elkins | SIC 20:1 (2023) p. 96

    • 23 May 2023

  • Spanglish and Tex-Mex in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas : Bilinguals’ perceptions and valorizations of speech styles
    Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez , Shannon McCrocklin &  Alejandra Tiburcio | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 50–75

    • 17 April 2023

  • Social perceptions of /f/ fortition in Guatemalan Spanish
    Brandon Baird | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 599–625

    • 20 February 2023

  • Mood alternation in Mexican Spanish in Georgia
    Kathryn P. Bove &  Philip P. Limerick | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 76–95
  • Análisis estadístico del contacto entre lenguas: El caso de las grafías 〈b〉 y 〈v〉 en la documentación en castellano de Mallorca (siglo XVIII)
    Ruth Miguel Franco &  David Sánchez | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 1–25

    • 14 February 2023

  • Variation in Andorran Spanish past perfectives : Insights from the Portuguese diaspora
    James Hawkey | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 154–177
  • Construcciones exclamativas de rechazo
    Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 178–207

    • 13 February 2023

  • La negociación de la autenticidad en el lenguaje dialógico del turismo digital
    Maria Vittoria Calvi &  Francisca Suau-Jiménez | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 130–153

    • 2 February 2023

  • Metalinguistic discourse and dialect performance : Perception and negotiation of Ecuadorian Andean identity expressed through dar + gerund on Twitter
    Kathleen S. Guerra | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 208–231

    • 2 December 2022

  • Sin noticias del chabacano : Calas en la escena lingüística de Manila (1620–1640)
    Mauro Fernández &  Nancy Vázquez-Veiga | SIC 19:3 (2022) pp. 385–404

    • 1 December 2022

  • Análisis del uso de números en la prensa española durante la crisis del Covid-19
    Miguel Ángel Jordán Enamorado &  Elia Arrametapongsa Brines | SIC 19:3 (2022) pp. 454–480

    • 28 November 2022

  • Impact of elocution task on the measurements of rhythmic patterns in Chilean Spanish
    Joseph Edward Larson , Mauricio A. Figueroa &  Hernán Emilio Pérez | SIC 19:3 (2022) pp. 405–431
  • Análisis semántico y pragmático del dequeísmo en El Habla de Monterrey-PRESEEA
    Liz Maleni Uribe Martínez | SIC 19:3 (2022) pp. 432–453

    • 15 November 2022

  • Whitney Chappell (ed.). 2019. Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception
    Reviewed by Florencia Giménez | SIC 19:2 (2022) pp. 373–384

    • 26 October 2022

  • Luisa Martín Rojo &  Alfonso Del Percio (eds.). 2020. Language and Neoliberal Governmentality
    Reseña de Lara Alonso | SIC 19:2 (2022) pp. 361–372

    • 25 October 2022

  • The role of referent cohesiveness in variable subject expression in L2 Spanish
    Bret Linford &  Kimberly Geeslin | SIC 19:3 (2022) pp. 508–536

    • 21 October 2022

  • Karin Tusting , Sharon McCulloch , Ibrar Bhatt , Mary Hamilton &  David Barton . 2019. Academics Writing. The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation
    Reseña de María Gina Furlan | SIC 19:3 (2022) pp. 563–570
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