Three Essays On Linguistic Diversity In The Spanish-speaking World: The U.s. Southwest And The River Plate Area (janua Linguarum. Series Practica) (janua Linguarum. Practica)

## PREFACE The present collection of three essays focuses on three points of language contact in the U. S. Southwest, Argentina, and Uruguay. While the former region has long been recognized as one of high linguistic diversity, there has been a tendency to regard the River Plate area as one marked by uniformity and to be somewhat monolithic linguistically. Hence it is hoped that the articles herein presented will bring new insights into the "language situations" (to use Charles A. Ferguson's term) of the respective regions. While sociolinguistics figures importantly in the Ornstein and Hensey essays, the one by Foster, while mentioning the social characteristics of the speakers of porteño, is by and large a phonological treatise. Educational implications are also considered, particularly in the first essay. There is decidedly need for a great number of linguistic studies, incorporating some of the newer approaches and findings of linguistics, of the enormously large and variegated Spanish speech community, distributed as it is at so many points throughout the globe, and in contact with so many related and unrelated languages and language varieties. The present slender volume can obviously fill only a small proportion of the lacunae.

Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision. However, as this analysis of the Hollywood war film will show, a wider sensory field is powerfully evoked in this genre. Contouring war cinema as representing a somatic experience of space, the study applies a term recently developed by Derek Gregory within the theoretical framework of Critical Geography. What he calls "corpography" implies a constant re-mapping of landscape through the soldier's body. These assumptions can be used as a connection between already established theories of cartographic film narration and ideas of (neo)phenomenological film experience, as they also entail the involvement of the spectator's body in sensuously grasping what is staged as a mediated experience of war. While cinematic codes of war have long been oriented almost exclusively to the visual, the notion of corpography can help to reframe the concept of film genre in terms of expressive movement patterns and genre memory, avoiding reverting to the usual taxonomies of generic texts.

Preface Contents Sociolinguistics and the Study of Spanish and English Language Varieties and Their Use in the U. S. Southwest (with a proposed plan of research) Fronterizo: A Case of Phonological Restructuring Concerning the Phonemes of Standard Porteño Spanish RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN U.S. SOUTHWEST SOCIOLINGUISTICS - AN ADDENDUM TO JACOB ORNSTEIN'S 'SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND THE STUDY OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE VARIETIES' NAME INDEX SUBJECT INDEX