Spanish in Africa/Africa in Spanish
Current challenges and methodologies in Afro-Hispanic linguistics
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Spanish in Africa/Africa in Spanish
Current challenges and methodologies in Afro-Hispanic linguistics
About this book
Since the 1960s, Afro-Hispanic linguistics has produced vital knowledge at the intersection of African diaspora studies and Spanish sociolinguistics – yet many misconceptions persist in research literature. To challenge those biased assumptions, the contributions gathered in this volume present current research on Afro-Hispanic varieties from both sides of the Atlantic (Equatorial Guinean Spanish, Palenquero, Afro-Puerto Rican Spanish from Loíza, San Andrean [Colombia] Raizal Spanish) and address the influence of Portuguese-based Creoles on Afro-Hispanic varieties during the early colonial era.
Conceived in cooperation with students, activists, social workers, civil servants, and researchers who work with Afro-Hispanic languages and communities (as well as with other languages and communities who suffer linguistic, social, and racial marginalization), this volume adopts a social justice framework that seeks tangible, material, and quality-of-life improvements for the speech communities in which it investigates. It includes best practices for empirical research, recruitment of respondents and informants, fieldwork and archival work, and pedagogical and community-facing applications of research.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Afro-Hispanic linguistics. Challenges, misrepresentations, and assumptions
- An overview of recent research on the sociolinguistic role of Luso-Africans, ladino Africans, and criollos of African descent in the early colonial Spanish Americas
- Methodological choices and personal responsibility of researchers Working in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia
- Afro-Puerto Rican Spanish declarative intonation Implications for creole and social justice studies
- San Andrean Spanish stylistic variation in academia Language adaptation and resistance in peer-to-peer interactions
- Subject pronoun expression in Equatoguinean Spanish Methodological challenges and the sociopolitical climate
- Issues of Spanish language maintenance among the Equatorial Guinean community in Houston
- Towards a social justice framework for marginalized linguistic communities
- Index