Spanish in Context

Spanish in Context publishes original theoretical, empirical and methodological studies into pragmatics and sociopragmatics, variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse and conversation analysis, functional contextual analyses, bilingualism, and crosscultural and intercultural communication with the aim of extending our knowledge of Spanish and of these disciplines themselves.

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ISSN 1571-0718 | E-ISSN 1571-0726
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sic
Sample issue: SiC 14:1
Board
Executive Editor
Francisco Moreno-Fernández | Universidad de Alcalá & Heidelberg University
Co-editors
Patricia Bou-Franch | Universitat de València
Rosina Márquez Reiter | The Open University, UK
Kim Potowski | University of Illinois at Chicago
Review Editor
Isolda E. Carranza | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Editorial Assistant
Héctor Álvarez-Mella | Heidelberg University
Editorial Board
Antonio Briz | Universidad de Valencia
Yvette Bürki | Bern University
Rocío Caravedo | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Ana M. Cestero Mancera | Universidad de Alcalá here
Godsuno Chela-Flores | University of Zulia
M. Victoria Escandell-Vidal | Universidad Complutense de Madrid
J. César Félix-Brasdefer | Indiana University
Sybille Große | Heidelberg University
Carol A. Klee | University of Minnesota
Bettina Kluge | University of Hildesheim
Jennifer Leeman | George Mason University
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus | Swansea University
Óscar Loureda | Heidelberg University
Norma Mendoza-Denton | University of California Los Angeles
Teresa Oteíza | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Azucena Palacios Alcaine | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Derrin Pinto | University of St. Thomas
Chase Wesley Raymond | University of Colorado
Naomi Shin | University of New Mexico
Antonio Torres Torres | University of Barcelona
Daniel J. Villa | New Mexico State University
Ana Celia Zentella | University of California at San Diego
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Issues

Volume 19 (2022)

Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 18 (2021)

Issue 3
Issue 2
Issue 1
Humour in Spanish Context

Volume 17 (2020)

Issue 3
Issue 2
Sociolinguistic patterns and processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish
Issue 1

Volume 16 (2019)

Issue 3
Prosodic Issues in Language Contact Situations
Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 15 (2018)

Issue 3
Issue 2
Estrategias atenuantes en géneros discursivos del español: Interfaz semántico-pragmática
Issue 1

Volume 14 (2017)

Issue 3
Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 13 (2016)

Issue 3
Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 12 (2015)

Issue 3
Issue 2
Issue 1
Hearer-Orientation in Spoken Genres

Volume 11 (2014)

Issue 3
Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 10 (2013)

Issue 3
Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 9 (2012)

Issue 3
Issue 2
La sociolingüística con perspectiva etnográfica en el mundo hispano: Nuevos contextos, nuevas aproximaciones
Issue 1

Volume 8 (2011)

Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 7 (2010)

Issue 2
Issue 1

Ideologías lingüísticas y el español en contexto histórico

Volume 6 (2009)

Issue 2
Issue 1
Spanish Maintenance and Loss in the U.S. Southwest

Volume 5 (2008)

Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 4 (2007)

Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 3 (2006)

Issue 2
Issue 1
Language Variation and Change: Historical and contemporary perspectives

Volume 2 (2005)

Issue 2
Issue 1

Volume 1 (2004)

Issue 2
Issue 1
Latest articles

4 October 2022

  • Marcadores de implicación en los discursos de campaña para las elecciones generales de 2016 en España
    Ana Albalat-Mascarell &  María Luisa Carrió-Pastor

    • 27 September 2022

  • The benefits of social interaction and proficiency for foreign language acquisition of Spanish conventional expressions : Evidence from foreign language Spanish learners
    Nofiya Denbaum-Restrepo

    • 15 September 2022

  • Ritualized disbelief in Mexican Spanish talk-in-interaction
    Ariel Vázquez Carranza

    • 29 August 2022

  • John M. Lipski . 2020. Palenquero and Spanish in Contact. Exploring the interface
    Reviewed by Alexandra Álvarez Muro

    • 28 July 2022

  • Janet M. Fuller &  Jennifer Leeman . 2020. Speaking Spanish in the US. The Sociopolitics of Language
    Reviewed by Marcela Altamira

    • 21 July 2022

  • Spaniards articulate faster than Mexicans : Temporal patterns in two varieties of Spanish
    Fabian Santiago &  Paolo Mairano

    • 13 July 2022

  • La regulación del español en contextos digitales : El dispositivo normativo de la Fundéu
    María Florencia Rizzo

    • 7 June 2022

  • Similitudes y diferencias en la expresión del sujeto pronominal en una misma comunidad de habla : Málaga frente a Granada
    Antonio Manjón-Cabeza Cruz &  Isabel Granados Romero

    • 17 May 2022

  • La construcción temporal : Herramienta estructural y estrategia argumentativa en el texto expositivo. Una mirada a las funciones del pretérito perfecto compuesto y el pretérito perfecto simple
    José Manuel Bustos Gisbert

    • 28 March 2022

  • Polifuncionalidad y prosodia : Construcciones introducidas por a ver si en español peninsular
    Pedro Gras &  Adrián Cabedo | SIC 19:1 (2022) pp. 48–71

    • 18 March 2022

  • Santiago U. Sánchez Jiménez , Nieves Martín Rogero &  Carmen Servén Díez . 2018. Complementos para la formación en lengua y literatura
    Reseña de Liliana Tozzi | SIC 19:1 (2022) pp. 175–188

    • 8 March 2022

  • A case for velarization of Spanish word-internal coda stops as hypercorrection
    Silvina Bongiovanni | SIC 19:1 (2022) p. 99
  • Convergence patterns in the city of Seville : Sociolinguistic study of seseo
    Juana Santana Marrero | SIC 19:1 (2022) pp. 122–145

    • 25 February 2022

  • ¿A poco así dices? Biased interrogatives with ¿A poco (no)…? in Mexican Spanish
    Asela Reig Alamillo | SIC 19:1 (2022) pp. 1–24
  • La voz como reacción emocional : De qué nos informa la prosodia
    Xose A. Padilla | SIC 19:1 (2022) pp. 72–98

    • 25 January 2022

  • Mixing Catalan, English and Spanish on WhatsApp : A case study on language choice and code-switching
    Carmen Pérez-Sabater

    • 14 January 2022

  • Politeness and pragmatic transfer in L2 pronominal address usage : Variation of T/V pronouns in Spanish by Chinese learners
    Yixin Wang | SIC 19:1 (2022) pp. 25–47

    • 24 December 2021

  • ¿Usté en Ciudá Real dice Madriz? Estudio sociolingüístico de la –d final de palabra en el habla de Ciudad Real
    Marko Kapović | SIC 19:1 (2022) pp. 146–174

    • 30 November 2021

  • El ‘saber habitual’ : Una gramaticalización inducida por factores internos y externos en el español andino ecuatoriano
    Paola Enríquez Duque | SIC 18:3 (2021) pp. 362–386

    • 16 November 2021

  • Eliecer Crespo Fernández &  Carmen Luján García . 2018. Anglicismos sexuales en español. El inglés como recurso eufemístico y disfemístico en la comunicación virtual
    Reseña de Eugenia Esperanza Núñez Nogueroles | SIC 18:3 (2021) pp. 479–487

    • 11 October 2021

  • Identity and investment in language learning : A case study of heritage Spanish speakers
    Farah Ali | SIC 18:3 (2021) pp. 430–458

    • 4 October 2021

  • The Ecuadorian Spanish benefactive and its inherent aspect : A reconstruction
    Paz González &  Martine Bruil | SIC 18:3 (2021) pp. 459–478

    • 20 September 2021

  • Las construcciones modales con deber : Elección morfosintáctica y creación de significado en el discurso de los medios de comunicación de Salamanca (España)
    Miguel A. Aijón Oliva | SIC 18:3 (2021) pp. 335–361
  • Victoria Rodrigo . 2019. La comprensión lectora en la enseñanza del español LE/L2: de la teoría a la práctica
    Reseña de Hebe Gargiulo | SIC 18:3 (2021) pp. 488–496

    • 30 August 2021

  • Y yo en plan: “¿Qué es esto?” . Los marcadores de cita en el español coloquial
    Anke Grutschus | SIC 18:3 (2021) pp. 409–429

    • 19 August 2021

  • Interdental /s/ in Salvadoran Spanish : Linguistic patterns and social meaning
    Ana Cecilia Iraheta | SIC 18:3 (2021) pp. 387–408

    • 27 July 2021

  • Remapping variable subject position in Spanish intransitives : A proposal for functionally defined categories in motion verbs
    Manuel F. Pulido | SIC 18:2 (2021) pp. 257–284

    • 22 July 2021

  • Ignacio Bosque , Sylvia Costa &  Marisa Malcuori (eds.). 2018. Palabras en lluvia minuciosa. Veinte visitas a la gramática del español inspiradas por Ángela Di Tullio
    Reseña de Patricia C. Hernández | SIC 18:2 (2021) pp. 323–334

    • 8 July 2021

  • Vos and tú in the linguistic landscape : Attitudes toward their use in Medellín, Colombia
    Joseph R. Weyers | SIC 18:2 (2021) pp. 218–236
  • Manuel Alcántara Plá . 2017. Palabras invasoras: el español de las nuevas tecnologías
    Reseña de Eduardo Bolívar Mezquida | SIC 18:2 (2021) pp. 318–322

    • 6 May 2021

  • Polylanguaging and bivalency in the Ecuadorian linguistic landscape : An analysis of public signs in Azogues, Ecuador
    Jordan Lavender | SIC 18:2 (2021) pp. 161–191

    • 4 May 2021

  • El género tesis de licenciatura en lingüística : Descripción léxico-gramatical de sus propósitos comunicativos
    Ignacio Lobos &  René Venegas | SIC 18:2 (2021) pp. 285–317

    • 9 April 2021

  • Political persuasion in a Spanish electoral debate : Intonation and affectivity in openings and closings
    Raquel Hidalgo Downing &  María Jesús Nieto y Otero | SIC 18:2 (2021) pp. 192–217
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    Subjects

    Linguistics

    Pragmatics
    Discourse studies
    Romance linguistics

    Main BIC Subject

    CF/2ADS: Linguistics/Spanish

    Main BISAC Subject

    LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General