Alba Arias Alvarez
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alba Arias Alvarez plays a role.
2024 Linguistic landscapes of activism: The fight for a quality public healthcare in Madrid Journal of Language and Politics 23:6, pp. 896–919 | Article
The field of the linguistic landscape has been examined as an arena of negotiation, struggle, and contestation, where individuals and communities play roles in the symbolic construction of the public sphere. Transitory linguistic landscapes show the power struggle between different communities… read more
2024 Language contact, identity building and attitudes towards the use of a minoritized language in the public space Linguistic Landscape 10:2, pp. 190–214 | Article
Recent sociolinguistic studies have emphasized the role of the Linguistic Landscape in analyzing language attitudes and identities in relation to minoritized languages. The present study examines language attitudes and perceptions of Asturian speakers towards the use of Asturian, a minoritized… read more
2021 Chapter 4. Ideologies in the linguistic landscape: The semiotic construction of the Puerto Rican identity Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World, Gubitosi, Patricia and Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (eds.), pp. 105–132 | Chapter
Linguistic Landscape (LL) research is a useful tool to uncover language ideologies related to the construction of ethnic identities within a public space. Language in the public space may reflect the sociopolitical encounters and differences that exist within a community and need to be… read more
2018 Chapter 13. Mothers’ use of F0 after the first year of life in American English and Peninsular Spanish Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.), pp. 281–308 | Chapter
Infant-directed speech has been shown to be different from adult-directed speech in that it is generally characterized by short, acoustically exaggerated (e.g. higher F0 peaks, wider F0 range) utterances (Fernald et al., 1989; Kitamura et al., 2001, inter alia). Thus, at some point parents begin to… read more
“¿Otra vez con fame? ¡Menudo llambión!”: An approximation to linguistic attitudes in Asturias Spanish in Context: Online-First Articles | Article
By adopting a matched-guise technique, the present study examines covert and overt attitudes towards Asturian, a minoritized language spoken in Asturias (Northwestern Spain). The two phonetic Asturian variants empirically analyzed are Asturian ‘f-’ and ‘ll-’ vs. Spanish ‘h-’ and ‘l-’,… read more