Explores multiculturalism, indigenous communities and bilingualism in the Amazon region!
What is it about?
Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous language communities found within its limits are increasingly incorporating Spanish as a first or second language. This situation of language expansion, contact, and bilingualism is reshaping the sociolinguistic landscape of the Amazon by creating a number of Spanish varieties with innovative linguistic features that require closer scholarly attention.
Why is it important?
The chapters in this volume include work on distinct geographical regions of the Amazon, with primary data collected using different methodologies across diverse language contact situations. The scholars in this volume specialize in an array of fields, including anthropological linguistics, bilingualism, dialectology, language acquisition, and language contact. Their work represents both formal and functional approaches to linguistics.