Carla Amoros

Carla Amoros
  • Phd Spanish Linguistcs
  • Lecturer at University of Salamanca

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Introduction
Carla Amoros currently works at the Department of Spanish, Universidad de Salamanca. Carla does research in Language Policy and Planning, Sociolinguistics, Syntax and Pragmatics. Their current project is 'XCELING'.
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University of Salamanca
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  • Lecturer
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September 2011 - July 2017
University of Salamanca
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  • Lecturer

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Publications (44)
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In this chapter we are presenting a panoramic view of the main contributions that pluricentrism has made and continues to make to the study of languages with more than one referential variety of formal language. This view does not attempt to dodge the controversial aspects and limitations of some aspects of pluricentrism in its beginnings, a propos...
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A estandarización é un proceso tanto sociopolítico e cultural como propiamente lingüístico, e constitúe unha cuestión central na política e a planificación lingüísticas. O lingüista Otto Jespersen referiuse ao xurdimento das linguas estándar como «o fenómeno máis importante na evolución da lingua en tempos históricos». Talvez por iso, a estandariza...
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El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la conceptualización discursiva del español como lengua estándar a partir de un corpus de columnas sobre la lengua escritas en España en los siglos XIX y XX. Desde una perspectiva glotopolítica, se examina la conocida como «ideología de la lengua estándar » (Milroy/Milroy [1985] 1991, 1), según la cual exist...
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Our aim of establishing the theoretical basis for the study of comparative standardology among the Spanish languages makes a revision of the metalanguage used in language standardisation studies a previous and necessary task. As one of the basic notions in the history and comparison of the emergence of the standard languages/varieties is ‘compositi...
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The articles in this book address the issues of migration, linguistic pluricentricity and linguistic accommodation from different but also complementary angles. They all focus on Spanish, although the contexts of the studies include settings within and outside the Spanish-speaking world. The papers provide new perspectives with regard to the follow...
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This article adopts the critical and ethnographic language policy approach (McCarty, 2011; Johnson and Ricento, 2013) to unveil the family language policy adopted by first-and second-generation Romanian parents in a diasporic context, Castelló de la Plana, the capital city of the Castelló province (Spain). The study focuses particularly on parents’...
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This Special Issue (SI) sheds light on the relationship between geographical, sociocultural, historical, functional, or stylistic variation and language norms, understanding by these both objective implicit social habits and prescriptive explicit codifications [...]
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El presente libro va dirigido al profesorado que imparte docencia de Lingüística General, una asignatura troncal de formación básica de todos los grados filológicos y lingüísticos de las universidades españolas en el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, una materia introductoria fundamental para la formación de los futuros filólogos y lingüistas....
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Globalisation and late-modernity have brought profound socio-political, economic, cultural as well as linguistic transformations. An intensification of mobility and transnational migration around the globe has added a complexity to linguistic interactions and repertoires that can be better analysed with non-essentialist approaches. With this in min...
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La secció monogràfica «L’estandardologia comparada: teoria i pràctica» inclou sis treballs, d’acord amb la crida d’articles feta, tant sobre les qüestions teòri�ques de la disciplina com sobre les seves aplicacions a casos concrets. El motiu de la crida va ser la voluntat de presentar treballs en la línia de la compa�rative standardology de Joseph...
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Background In contrast with the setting of acute myocardial infarction, there are limited data regarding the impact of diabetes mellitus on clinical outcomes in contemporary cohorts of patients with chronic coronary syndromes. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and prognostic impact of diabetes according to geographical regions and ethnicity....
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Linguistics cannot obviate the fact that, according to a vast majority of the population not well versed in linguistic issues, normativity constitutes the key aspect both of languages and of language. The high number of daily consultations regarding language registered by the Espanol al dia Service of the Real Academia Espanola serves as an example...
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Este trabajo defiende la íntima relación existente entre conciencia sociolingüística y pluricentrismo lingüístico y propone analizar esta vinculación en profundidad, dado que la percepción de los hablantes hacia las distintas variedades y variantes lingüísticas es fundamental en la configuración y surgimiento de modelos idiomáticos. En este sentido...
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El propósito de este artículo consiste en analizar de manera pormenorizada la integración de las diversas variedades del español y los modelos lingüísticos difundidos en el ámbito de la certificación del español como lengua extranjera. Para ello, se compararán los diferentes sistemas de certificación de alcance internacional y se prestará especial...
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Identification of the origin of the concept of "compositionality"
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Uno de los grandes retos de los entornos virtuales de aprendizaje es el control de la calidad. La proliferación de los MOOC (cursos online, masivos y abiertos) ha puesto en evidencia la necesidad de establecer nuevos modelos de evaluación cualitativa de los contenidos y propuestas didácticas en la enseñanza con mediación tecnológica. El objetivo de...
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This paper analyzes the status of the Andalusian variety within Spanish language pluricentricity. It offers an example of the rise of new systems of normative stratification in the traditional ‘linguistic peripheries’ and of how the different linguistic agents deal with the vindication of social and linguistic identities. This fact makes us treat A...
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El proceso globalizador ha traído consigo una reestructuración en todos los niveles, un cambio profundo en la manera en la que se distribuyen los recursos y el poder (político, económico, cultural, comunicativo, etc.). En este sentido, en el ámbito lingüístico, la difusión y hegemonía internacional de unas pocas lenguas e identidades hipercentrales...
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La peculiar situación geográfica y socioeconómica del archipiélago canario (ultraperiferia del Estado español y de la Unión Europea) ha forjado una identidad que merece mucha más atención de la que ha sido objeto hasta ahora, sobre todo, a raíz de la reestructuración que ha supuesto el auge del fenómeno globalizador y por la importancia que merece...
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Attitudes towards the Andalusian variety are contradictory and ideologically variable. Outside Andalusia, it is associated with popular social stereotypes; within its borders, the dignification of its functional status is being fostered: attempts have been made to standardize a type of pronunciation that can guide language teaching and professional...
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The current glocal dynamics poses new questions and challenges for scholars engaged in the study of language policy and planning (LPP), especially with regard to the adoption of measures for the democratisation of languages and their speakers. The latest studies have highlighted the role of speakers’ agency (their attitudes, beliefs and practices)...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es contribuir a la delimitación del concepto de «estándar», que ha influido en granmedida en la configuración de los tratados gramaticales que acometen la descripción de las lenguas. Se analizarán pormenorizadamente las distintas propiedades y características que se le han atribuido en diversas y, muchas veces, contradic...
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This volume commemorates the 20th anniversary of Michael Clyne’s seminal volume “Pluricentric languages. Differing norms in different countries” published in 1992. The main topic dealt with here is to “explore linguistic standards in non-dominant varieties” and to find out how different language communities of non-dominant varieties reconcile their...
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The goal of this study is to analyse the process of standardization in Moroccan Arabic in an Arabic polycentric system It focuses on the following aspects: first, we will present a brief review of the socio-political and economic context that aims to revitalize Moroccan Arabic and put pressure on the language policy of the state defending the Moroc...
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This volume comprises 28 papers that were presented at the “1st International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages” which was organised by the “Working Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages” and held in Graz (Austria) from July 11-13, 2011. The conference was also held in memory of Michael Clyne. The co...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the context and the conditioning factors that led linguists and normative institutions to give a pericentric character to the Spanish linguistic norm. This meant a radical turn in Spain's interest towards the Hispanophone America that can be observed in the adoption of a renovated discourse, more adequate to the...
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Resumen _____________________________________________________________________________________ El propósito de este trabajo es analizar las principales causas y consecuencias de la resistencia de la lingüística moderna a acometer el estudio de los fenómenos vinculados a la prescripción. Indudablemente, la tarea del gramático consiste en describir, n...

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