Spanish in Africa/Africa in Spanish - Current challenges and methodologies in Afro-Hispanic linguistics

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.

About the author

Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli, The State University of New York at Buffalo; Reynaldo Romero, University of Houston-Downtown, Texas, USA.

Product details

• Assisted by: Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli (Editor), Romero (Editor), Rey Romero (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9783111340647
• ISBN: 978-3-11-134064-7
• No. of pages: 290
• Weight: 544 g
• Illustrations: 16 b/w and 9 col. ill., 28 b/w tbl., 1 col. maps
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Historische und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Linguistics, Lateinamerikanisches Spanisch, Sociolinguistics, Sprachkontakt, Forschungsmethode, language contact, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Spanisch-basierte Kreolsprachen, Afrikanische Sprachen, andere, empirical research methods, Kreolisch-Spanisch, linguistic justice, FOR035000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Creole Languages, Afro-Hispanic language varieties