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Defining Andeanness Away from the Andes: Language Attitudes and Linguistic Ideologies in Lima, Peru

Salcedo, Daniela
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376957619

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
Language attitudes and linguistic ideologies are an inherent aspect of every multilingual or multidialectal society, and this is no exception in Lima, where Limeño Spanish and Andean Spanish coexist due to an important phenomenon of internal migration from the Andes to Peru’s capital that has taken place during the last forty years. This dissertation presents a quantitative and qualitative approach to the attitudes and ideologies that the residents of Lima have towards Andean Spanish and their speakers in order to propose a definition for provinciano identity, a concept that I have labeled “Andeanness”. The present perception study provides an approach to the reactions that both Limeños and Andean migrants have towards a selection of (stigmatized) morphosyntactic features from Andean Spanish. Making use of the Matched-Guise technique and a questionnaire, I collected data in two different and complementary fieldwork projects. The findings show that there is no dialect awareness towards Andean Spanish since participants, when confronted with the selected morphosyntactic features of that dialect, did not associate them with a dialect per se, but with an `incorrect’ Spanish spoken mostly by Andean migrants, which allegedly share stereotypical characteristics such as a low level of education, indigenous race and poverty. Furthermore, I found that these stigmatized morphosyntactic features were not indexes of Andeanness each by itself but mostly only when combined. One of the recurring patterns found through the quantitative analysis is that it is more important to establish the difference between groups in terms of power than in terms of solidarity. This is shown in the significantly greater distance between the two Limeño Spanish speaker guises and the ones by the AS speaker in terms of the characteristics related to status.
Terrell Morgan, Dr. (Advisor)
200 p.
Sociolinguistics
sociolinguistics; Lima; Peru; language attitudes; linguistic ideologies; Andean Spanish; migration; provincianos; Quechua; Spanish dialects; discrimination; stigmatization

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  • Salcedo, D. (2013). Defining Andeanness Away from the Andes: Language Attitudes and Linguistic Ideologies in Lima, Peru [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376957619

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Salcedo, Daniela. Defining Andeanness Away from the Andes: Language Attitudes and Linguistic Ideologies in Lima, Peru . 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376957619.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Salcedo, Daniela. "Defining Andeanness Away from the Andes: Language Attitudes and Linguistic Ideologies in Lima, Peru ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376957619

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