Italian-Spanish Contact in Early 20th Century Argentina

Autores
Ennis, Juan Antonio
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
This article attempts to provide a general approach to the exceptional language contact situation that took place in Argentina from the end of the 19th century until the first decades of the 20th century, in which an enormous immigration flow drastically modified the sociolinguistic landscape. This was most evident in urban environments -and among them especially the Buenos Aires area- and led the local ruling elites to set up a complex and massive apparatus for the nationalisation of the newcomers, which included a language shift in the first stage. Given that the majority of immigrants came from Italy, the most widespread form of contact was that between the local varieties of Spanish and the Italian dialects spoken by the immigrants, which led to the creation of a contact variety called Cocoliche that arose, lived then perished. Although this contact variety did not survive the early years, at least not as a full-fledged variety, the history of its emergence and the ways in which it can be studied today nevertheless make it an object of special interest for research perspectives oriented around the question of the early years of language contact. This article gives an account of this history so as to provide an analysis of a series of documents that, in a highly mediated way, can be used as an unreliable but nonetheless interesting corpus for the study of language and culture contact.
Fil: Ennis, Juan Antonio. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.
Fuente
Journal of Language Contact, 8(1), 112-145. (2015)
ISSN 1955-2629
Materia
Lingüística
Lenguaje
Español
Italiano
Siglo XX
Italian-Spanish contact
Argentina
Lexical borrowing
Prosodic borrowing
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
Condiciones de uso
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Repositorio
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Institución
Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Italian-Spanish Contact in Early 20th Century Argentina
title Italian-Spanish Contact in Early 20th Century Argentina
spellingShingle Italian-Spanish Contact in Early 20th Century Argentina
Ennis, Juan Antonio
Lingüística
Lenguaje
Español
Italiano
Siglo XX
Italian-Spanish contact
Argentina
Lexical borrowing
Prosodic borrowing
title_short Italian-Spanish Contact in Early 20th Century Argentina
title_full Italian-Spanish Contact in Early 20th Century Argentina
title_fullStr Italian-Spanish Contact in Early 20th Century Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Italian-Spanish Contact in Early 20th Century Argentina
title_sort Italian-Spanish Contact in Early 20th Century Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ennis, Juan Antonio
author Ennis, Juan Antonio
author_facet Ennis, Juan Antonio
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Lingüística
Lenguaje
Español
Italiano
Siglo XX
Italian-Spanish contact
Argentina
Lexical borrowing
Prosodic borrowing
topic Lingüística
Lenguaje
Español
Italiano
Siglo XX
Italian-Spanish contact
Argentina
Lexical borrowing
Prosodic borrowing
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This article attempts to provide a general approach to the exceptional language contact situation that took place in Argentina from the end of the 19th century until the first decades of the 20th century, in which an enormous immigration flow drastically modified the sociolinguistic landscape. This was most evident in urban environments -and among them especially the Buenos Aires area- and led the local ruling elites to set up a complex and massive apparatus for the nationalisation of the newcomers, which included a language shift in the first stage. Given that the majority of immigrants came from Italy, the most widespread form of contact was that between the local varieties of Spanish and the Italian dialects spoken by the immigrants, which led to the creation of a contact variety called Cocoliche that arose, lived then perished. Although this contact variety did not survive the early years, at least not as a full-fledged variety, the history of its emergence and the ways in which it can be studied today nevertheless make it an object of special interest for research perspectives oriented around the question of the early years of language contact. This article gives an account of this history so as to provide an analysis of a series of documents that, in a highly mediated way, can be used as an unreliable but nonetheless interesting corpus for the study of language and culture contact.
Fil: Ennis, Juan Antonio. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.
description This article attempts to provide a general approach to the exceptional language contact situation that took place in Argentina from the end of the 19th century until the first decades of the 20th century, in which an enormous immigration flow drastically modified the sociolinguistic landscape. This was most evident in urban environments -and among them especially the Buenos Aires area- and led the local ruling elites to set up a complex and massive apparatus for the nationalisation of the newcomers, which included a language shift in the first stage. Given that the majority of immigrants came from Italy, the most widespread form of contact was that between the local varieties of Spanish and the Italian dialects spoken by the immigrants, which led to the creation of a contact variety called Cocoliche that arose, lived then perished. Although this contact variety did not survive the early years, at least not as a full-fledged variety, the history of its emergence and the ways in which it can be studied today nevertheless make it an object of special interest for research perspectives oriented around the question of the early years of language contact. This article gives an account of this history so as to provide an analysis of a series of documents that, in a highly mediated way, can be used as an unreliable but nonetheless interesting corpus for the study of language and culture contact.
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