Sociolinguistics of yeísmo in Madrid: dynamics of variation and change
The current study focuses on the dynamics of variation and linguistic change that develop in socially heterogeneous cities like Madrid (Spain) with the goal of exploring how the values related to the standard dialect dichotomy contribute to explain these dynamics. The analysis focuses on the princip...
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| Tipo de recurso: | libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/65015 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/65015 https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429200267 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Variación lingüística Cambio lingüístico Fonética Yeísmo Filología Philology |
| Sumario: | The current study focuses on the dynamics of variation and linguistic change that develop in socially heterogeneous cities like Madrid (Spain) with the goal of exploring how the values related to the standard dialect dichotomy contribute to explain these dynamics. The analysis focuses on the principle that innovation expands throughout a community by means of face-to-face interpersonal communication and can advance from cities to suburbs and rural areas or jump from urban center to urban center without affecting rural areas (Hägerstrand 1953 [1967]). In both cases, models of hierarchical diffusion are proposed for changes that begin in centric places. In order to illustrate this process, a widely studied sociolinguistic variable is analyzed: the delateralization of the voiced palatal merger together with "yeísta" developments that have derived from the fusion of the palatals /ʎ/ and /ʝ/ in the Spanish-speaking world. In previous studies (Molina Martos 2013, 2015), the urbanization of the Community of Madrid has been shown to be influenced by the capital, an urbanization that has been projected onto the linguistic plain in the sense that it supposed de-dialectalization, or the divergence from local norms. Rather, there is a convergence with urban language, creating variation and linguistic change. In these processes, of special relevance is the consciousness that the variety maintained by the elites residing in the capital becomes the standard and represents a symbolic domain for the dialectal varieties spoken in the regions. |
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