Spanish in Context

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ORCID logoFrancisco Moreno-Fernández | Universidad de Alcalá & Heidelberg University
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ORCID logoLucía Cantamutto | Universidad Nacional de Río Negro
ORCID logoRosina Márquez Reiter | The Open University, UK
ORCID logoKim Potowski | University of Illinois at Chicago
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ORCID logoIsolda E. Carranza | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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ORCID logoHéctor Álvarez-Mella | Heidelberg University

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
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Latest articles

5 November 2024

  • Who says ejque? Spanish language attitudes towards velarized/s/
    Robyn Wright | SIC 21:2 (2024) pp. 219–246
  • 24 September 2024

  • An integrated look at forms of address in Chilean Spanish using a contextualized picture-translation task
    Víctor Fernández-Mallat | SIC 21:2 (2024) pp. 370–393
  • Creencias y actitudes de estudiantes universitarios barceloneses hacia la variedad centro-septentrional del español : Datos del proyecto PRECAVES XXI
    María del Mar Forment Fernández Cristina Illamola | SIC 21:2 (2024) pp. 342–369
  • Bachatéame, pero con la /s/ : La hipercorrección de la /s/ implosiva en la bachata
    Erik W. Willis | SIC 21:2 (2024) pp. 247–278
  • Alicia Mariscal . 2021. Categorización de errores ortográficos en zonas de contacto lingüístico entre inglés y español
    Reseña de Vanesa Álvarez Torres | SIC 21:2 (2024) pp. 424–430
  • 20 September 2024

  • Nuevos datos sobre la pronunciación de /tʃ/ en Granada
    Elena Fernández de Molina Ortés | SIC 21:2 (2024) pp. 394–423
  • 21 June 2024

  • No seas buey, cabrón : De lo rudo a lo cálido en el tratamiento interpersonal
    Ricardo Maldonado | SIC 21:1 (2024) p. 78
  • 30 May 2024

  • (Im)polite uses of vocatives in present-day Madrilenian Spanish
    Fien De Latte | SIC 21:2 (2024) pp. 312–341
  • 29 April 2024

  • Culturas juveniles como catalizador de la pragmaticalización de los marcadores tipo y onda en Argentina y México : Un estudio basado en comentarios metalingüísticos
    Wiltrud Mihatsch Ana Vazeilles | SIC 21:1 (2024) pp. 132–158
  • 16 April 2024

  • Non-modal voice quality in Chilean Spanish
    Mariška Bolyanatz | SIC 21:2 (2024) pp. 279–311
  • La generación ÓSEA : Usos modales e interactivos en una microdiacronía
    Krístel Guirado | SIC 21:1 (2024) pp. 104–131
  • 2 April 2024

  • Los vocativos contraculturales : Cambios paradigmáticos y difusión hasta el español coloquial actual
    Fien De Latte | SIC 21:1 (2024) pp. 51–77
  • 28 March 2024

  • Del rollo como sustantivo comodín contracultural al rollo aproximador en el español coloquial actual
    Ana Llopis Cardona Marlies Jansegers | SIC 21:1 (2024) pp. 159–189
  • Culturas juveniles, contracultura y procesos de difusión en el español coloquial : Reflexiones previas y contribuciones
    Ana Llopis Cardona | SIC 21:1 (2024) pp. 1–22
  • 22 March 2024

  • Anglicismos en el contexto contracultural de las historietas gráficas de los años 70 y su evolución : El caso de la revista Star
    David Giménez Folqués | SIC 21:1 (2024) pp. 190–218
  • 7 March 2024

  • Fases y factores socioculturales en la difusión de tío/tía como vocativos : “juvenilización” del español coloquial actual
    Ana Llopis Cardona Salvador Pons Bordería | SIC 21:1 (2024) pp. 23–50
  • 27 February 2024

  • Gianluca Pontrandolfo Sara Piccioni . 2022. Comunicación especializada y divulgación en la red: aproximaciones basadas en corpus
    Reseña de Analía Beatriz Espeche | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 651–658
  • 22 February 2024

  • Gibran Delgado-Díaz . 2021. The evolution of Spanish past forms
    Reviewed by Nicholas M. Blaker | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 642–650
  • 13 February 2024

  • Los puertorriqueños se les está cayendo la “a” : Variably marked datives in Puerto Rican Spanish
    Jessica Vélez Avilés | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 438–463
  • 29 January 2024

  • Manuel Díaz-Campos Sandro Sessarego (eds.). 2021. Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology. In honor of Terrell A. Morgan
    Reseña de Rosnátaly Avelino Sierra | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 633–641
  • 9 January 2024

  • The role of perceptual salience in a strengthening sound change : A comparison of /j/ perception by Colombian and Dominican listeners
    Nofiya Denbaum-Restrepo Eliot Raynor | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 411–437
  • 21 December 2023

  • Partículas discursivas y prosodia : Los marcadores de control de contacto ¿sabes? y ¿entiendes?
    Antonio Hidalgo Antonio Briz Gómez | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 513–549
  • Discourse markers in Spanish in the Tijuana-San Diego border area
    R. Mata John Moore | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 464–489
  • 12 December 2023

  • Stativity and inchoativity : The undiscussed key role of estar in Old Spanish
    Mª Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia Josep Ausensi | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 343–366
  • 11 December 2023

  • Patrones relacionales de la expresión de la epistemicidad y la gestión de la imagen en el español peninsular
    Marta Gancedo Ruiz M.ª Amparo Soler Bonafont | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 550–573
  • 6 December 2023

  • Intervocalic /ɡ/ realization in Border Uruguayan Spanish
    Michael Gradoville , Mark Waltermire , Audrey Chery , Sofía Fernandez Avizia Long | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 490–512
  • 14 November 2023

  • First person singular subject pronoun expression of young Spanish speakers from Quito, Ecuador
    Leslie Del Carpio | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 574–598
  • 2 November 2023

  • Cognitive underpinnings of the meaning of Spanish estar : Implications for its diachronic change
    María Mercedes Piñango Martín Fuchs | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 367–388
  • The case for broader copulas : Evidence from Spanish, Tsez, and more
    Daniel Wilson | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 389–410
  • 30 October 2023

  • Introduction
    Silvia Gumiel-Molina Isabel Pérez-Jiménez | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 251–256
  • 31 August 2023

  • Juan Eduardo Bonnin . 2019. Discourse and Mental Health: Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings
    Reviewed by Dalia Magaña | SIC 20:3 (2023) pp. 626–632
  • 24 August 2023

  • Estar+ILP : Testing the experiential commitment
    M. Victoria Escandell-Vidal | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 257–281
  • 27 July 2023

  • Perspectivized estar-sentences with aesthetic adjectives across American Spanish varieties
    Silvia Gumiel-Molina , Norberto Moreno-Quibén Isabel Pérez-Jiménez | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 313–342
  • 13 July 2023

  • Óscar Loureda , Adriana Cruz , Inés Recio Martha Rudka . 2021. Comunicación, partículas discursivas y pragmática experimental
    Reseña de Silva María Luisa | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 241–249
  • 7 July 2023

  • Acquisition of estar + adjective in L2 Spanish by L1 French and Portuguese speakers
    Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes , José Amenós-Pons Aoife Ahern | SIC 20:2 (2023) pp. 282–312
  • Phonic mitigation markers for disagreement in interviews of university learners of Spanish as foreign language
    María Isabel Medina Soler María Cecilia Ainciburu | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 26–49
  • Luisa Martín Rojo Joan Pujolar (eds.). 2020. Claves para entender el multilingüismo contemporáneo
    Reseña de Luci Nussbaum | SIC 20:1 (2023) pp. 232–240
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