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Variation and Identity in the Americas
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Variation and Identity in the Americas

Mercedes Niño‐Murcia
The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics, pp.728-746
Wiley‐Blackwell
02/04/2011
DOI: 10.1002/9781444393446.ch34

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This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Language and national identities Variation and attitudes of Spanish speakers towards indigenous languages Transnational communities' identities Variation and attitudes among Spanish speakers in the United States Conclusion References
 Chileans' sensitivity, deep‐seated rivalry ‐ with Peruvian neighbor‐republic collective identities, incorporating language ‐ collective histories of their speakers Guatemalans, imitating the way Mexicans speak ‐ establishing an identity, deployed only in public spheres language and national identities ‐ Social Identity Theory (SIT), in‐group membership characterization, at the expense of the out‐group Paraguay and MERCOSUR ‐ Paraguay, one‐of‐a‐kind case, quite different from general model of contempt for its indigenous language sociolinguistic study of language variation and identity ‐ ways in which identity, is mapped onto precise linguistic differences as lexicon, prosody and pronunciation transnational communities' identities ‐ relationships between languages, no longer being looked at only in geographical space two models of identity formation ‐ primordialist or essentialist, and constructivist or postmodern variation and attitudes of Spanish speakers ‐ towards indigenous languages variation and identity in the Americas ‐ notions of identity, by speakers of Spanish and other languages in the Americas

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