Language, Identity and Urban Space

This book analyses and compares the language use of Spanish speaking migrants in Lima and Madrid through corpora and uses a feature pool approach to language contact that is based on principles of linguistic ecology. It defines the interrelations of language and identity constitution and discusses the question of migrants’ cultural integration.

Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage, migration, space, in particular urban space, and the constitution of cultural identity. Two corpora of Andean migrants Spanish conversations in Lima and in Madrid are analysed. The resulting comparative analysis provides the material for considerations on language contact, code copying, discourse strategies etc. Throughout the book a new theoretical approach based on linguistic ecology is used. It includes the concept of a general expanded feature pool, which is the basis for language use and identity constitution for migrants.

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