On the different ways of being a bidialectal immigrant: The case of Argentineans in Spain
This paper aims at analysing the accommodation (convergence) of young immigrants, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but living in Malaga, Spain (n = 22). Our main goals are a) to establish why young immigrants adopt diff erent linguistic behaviour in regard to their variety of origin (spoken by their...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/46128 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/46128 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Varieties of Spanish in contact Immigration Accommodation ( convergence ) Divergence Variedades del español en contacto Inmigración Acomodación ( convergencia) Divergencia Lingüística Sociología Linguistics Sociology |
| Resumo: | This paper aims at analysing the accommodation (convergence) of young immigrants, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but living in Malaga, Spain (n = 22). Our main goals are a) to establish why young immigrants adopt diff erent linguistic behaviour in regard to their variety of origin (spoken by their parents, Dl-BAS) and the new variety they have contact with as a result of immigration (D2-MAL), b) to determine what this behaviour reveals about their individual characteristics and the speech communities to which they belong to. Attention has been focused on several linguistic levels: phonology, morphology (syntax) and lexis. Based on our results, the immigrants were classified by two-step cluster analysis in three groups: one is almost completely divergent (conserving Dl-BAS), another shows mixed linguistic behaviour and seems to be bidialectal (Dl+D2), and the third exhibits almost full accommodation towards D2-MAL. This paper aims to be a comprehensive analysis of how speakers readjust their own varieties and display new identities through accommodation ( convergence) or divergence. |
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