Virginia Unamuno

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Title

La sociolingüística con perspectiva etnográfica en el mundo hispano: Nuevos contextos, nuevas aproximaciones

Edited by Eva Codó, Adriana Patiño-Santos and Virginia Unamuno

Special issue of Spanish in Context 9:2 (2012) vi, 201 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics

Articles

Bonnin, Juan Eduardo and Virginia Unamuno 2021 Debating translanguaging: A contribution from the perspective of minority language speakersLanguage, Epistemology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production, Del Percio, Alfonso, Patricia Baquedano-López, Miguel Pérez-Milans and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 231–254 | Article
In this article, we discuss the concept of translanguaging by showing how theoretically unhelpful it is to account for language dynamics among Indigenous speakers leading revitalization projects in the Southern Cone of Latin America. We show how clear-cut distinctions between Spanish and… read more
Ballena, Camilo and Virginia Unamuno 2017 Challenge from the margins: New uses and meanings of written practices in WichiMeaning Making in the Periphery, Moita-Lopes, Luiz Paulo and Mike Baynham (eds.), pp. 120–143 | Article
This paper explores the production of new meanings linked to written practices in the Wichi language in the Impenetrable Chaqueño (Argentina). Through collaborative ethnography examining different collective experiences and points of view, we study changes in writing in connection with changes in… read more
Codó, Eva, Adriana Patiño-Santos y Virginia Unamuno 2012 Hacer sociolingüística etnográfica en un mundo cambiante: Retos y aportaciones desde la perspectiva hispanaLa sociolingüística con perspectiva etnográfica en el mundo hispano: Nuevos contextos, nuevas aproximaciones, Codó, Eva, Adriana Patiño-Santos and Virginia Unamuno (eds.), pp. 167–190 | Article
Este volumen reúne un grupo de trabajos de jóvenes sociolingüistas del mundo hispano que reflexionan, a través de su experiencia investigadora, sobre la metodología etnográfica, sus retos y confines epistemológicos, así como la configuración de nuevas posibilidades y formas de investigación para… read more
Masats, Dolors, Luci Nussbaum and Virginia Unamuno 2007 When activity shapes the repertoire of second language learnersEUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 7 (2007), Roberts, Leah, Ayşe Gürel, Sibel Tatar and Leyla Martı (eds.), pp. 121–147 | Article
Interactionists interested in second language acquisition postulate that learners’ competences are sensitive to the context in which they are put into play. Here we explore the language practices displayed, in a bilingual socio-educational milieu, by three dyads of English learners while carrying… read more
Masats, Dolors and Virginia Unamuno 2001 Constructing social identitites and discourse through repair activitiesEUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Anna Nizegorodcew (eds.), pp. 239–254 | Article
Traditionally, repairs have been defined as the traces of metalinguistic activities present in oral exchanges that reveal that the speaker(s) are trying to solve language problems which might affect the normal flow of communication (Duranti 1977, Griggs 1997, Levelt 1983, van Lier 1988). However,… read more