Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century - Stratification and Variation

Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century explores the trends and patterns of sociolinguistic stratification and variation, providing a clearer understanding of linguistic variation in Mexican Spanish as spoken in the twentieth century.

List of contents

Introduction: Stratification and variation in Latin America
Chapter 1. Shaping national and language identity: the 19th century
Chapter 2. Stability and consolidation of nationalism: the 20th century
Chapter 3. Identification of Mexican Spanish variables
Chapter 4. Stratification by community type
Chapter 5. Variation and permanence
Chapter 6. Sociolinguistic reconstruction of palatals in the northern frontier
Chapter 7. Conclusions
References

About the author

Margarita Hidalgo is professor emerita at the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, San Diego State University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Margarita Hidalgo, Hidalgo Margarita
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032504728
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250472-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Spanish, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Sociolinguistics, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Spanish, Dialect, slang & jargon, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Dialect, slang and jargon, LANGUAGE STUDY / Spanish