New number received from: CURRENT SPANISH: VIVO SPANISH MAGAZINE (nº 98. 2012)
Summary of this issue:
*Francisco Moreno Fernandez: Presentation. Panorama of Hispanic Sociolinguistics
ARTICLES
*Pedro Martin Butragueno: Variation and linguistic change in Mexican Spanish
*Jose Antonio Samper Padilla: Sociolinguistics in Spain
Yolanda Rodriguez Cadena: Sociolinguistic research in Colombia
*Orlando Alba: Sociolinguistic panorama of the insular Hispanic Caribbean
*Manuel Diaz-Campos and Gregory Newall: Spanish in the United States: An Overview of Demographics, History, and Most Relevant Linguistic Characteristics
*Paulo Correa and Leticia Rebollo: River Plate sociolinguistics: main phenomena of variation
BALLOTS
* Antonio Briz: The colloquial communicative constellation. Towards a more dynamic way of understanding the colloquial
*Ana Maria. Basket maker Mancera: The "Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in Spain and America (PRESEE)"
REVIEWS.
*Rebeca Barriga Villanueva and Pedro Martín Butragueño (dirs.), Sociolinguistic history of Mexico, vol. I: pre-Hispanic and colonial Mexico, The College of Mexico, Mexico, 2010 (Leonor Orozco)
*Rebeca Barriga Villanueva and Pedro Martín Butragueño (dirs.), Sociolinguistic history of Mexico, vol. II: Contemporary Mexico, The College of Mexico, Mexico, 2010 (Dinorah Pesqueira)
*Manuel Diaz-Campos (ed.), The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics (Jim Michnowicz)
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