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Valdivia Ruiz, Victor Alfredo – ProQuest LLC, 2016
From a usage-based approach, this dissertation explores the relationship between structural variability and discourse subjectivity in a series of interviews from the "New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish Survey" (Bills and Vigil 2008). Focusing on the use of cognitive and speech verbs, the analysis will demonstrate that a) structural…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Interviews, Spanish
Lozano, Anthony Girard – 1976
The question of teaching a standard dialect to Chicano students who are studying abroad has implications for teaching any standard versus nonstandard dialect. The University of Colorado has a program at the Universidad Veracruzana in Jalapa, Mexico, in which the policy is to teach standard Mexican Spanish (the cultivated norm of Mexico City) as an…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, College Students, Dialects
Lozano, Anthony G. – AGENDA, 1980
Discusses the history of the Spanish language in America and notes the influence of Caribbean languages, Nahuatl, and English on Spanish. Describes the archaisms in lexicon, phonology, and grammar of the Spanish of New Mexico and Colorado. Discusses Spanish language maintenance in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the United States. (SB)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Language Maintenance