What is it about?
This paper deals with the negotiation of stances among Ecuadorian Quichuas (a minority indigenous group living in Cali, Colombia) and people from the majority group through the use of a specific linguistic feature: the phoneme /s/ reduction. This reduction is an identity feature of the variety of Spanish spoken by the majority group, and it is not observed in the Andean Spanish variety spoken by Ecuadorian Quichuas. So when Quichuas perform it in Cali, they provide it a socio-pragmatic value that allows them to negotiate stances of affiliation to the majority within interaction.
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Why is it important?
Studying how minoritized indigenous groups negotiate stances in interaction through the use of their linguistic resources is important to understand how they bring into being specific strategies to subvert social inequalities in urban contact settings.
Perspectives
I hope this paper gives a little bit an understanding on how linguistic forms are linked to the social world, and how the social world determine permanently these linguistic forms.
Dr. Santiago Sánchez Moreano
Open University
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This page is a summary of: Negociación de posicionamientos sociales (stances) a través del debilitamiento del fonema /s/ en el español hablado por los quichuas ecuatorianos en Cali (Colombia), Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics, June 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/soprag-2017-0019.
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