%0 Journal Article 
%A Barnes, Sonia
%T Negotiating local identity: rural migration and sociolinguistic perception in urban Asturias

%D 2016
%@ 1889-5425
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27747
%X This study examines the connection between place and linguistic
performance in the language contact situation between Asturian and
Spanish in the city of Gijón (Asturias), and the role that rural migration
had on the place-based indexicality of Asturian linguistic features.
Migration from rural to urban areas in the 19th and 20th centuries
resulted in an intensification of the contact between Asturian
and Spanish, accentuating the contrast between the two languages
and the socio-demographic characteristics that were associated with
each. Today in Gijón we find a hybrid variety characterized by the
variable incorporation of features from Asturian. Using historical
information, sociolinguistic interview data, and perception experiments,
I show that the variation observed in the speech of Gijón is
highly influenced by the conflict between regional and urban identity.
These results build on prior sociolinguistic research that examines
the connection between geographic space and linguistic practice,
showing that speakers use language to relate to place. More generally,
it supports focusing on linguistic practice at the local level to
explain variation.

%K Sociolinguistics
%K Language contact
%K Language and place
%K Place-based identity
%K Morpho-phonological variation
%K Sociolinguistic perception
%K Asturian Spanish
%K Sociolingüística
%K Contacto de lenguas
%K Lengua y localización
%K Identidad regional
%K Variación morfo-fonológica
%K Percepción sociolingüística
%K Español de Asturias
%K Lingüística
%K Linguistics
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala