Cecilia Montes-Alcalá

List of John Benjamins publications in which Cecilia Montes-Alcalá is involved.

Titles

Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies

Edited by Cecilia Montes-Alcalá and Miguel García

This volume features the latest advancements in Spanish sociolinguistics, drawing from the 10th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS10). Organized into three sections, its nine chapters explore crucial issues in bilingualism and sociolinguistic variation (morpho-syntactic, phonetic,… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 42] 2025. xi, 241 pp.

New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Edited by Talia Bugel and Cecilia Montes-Alcalá

The analysis of language attitudes is important not only because attitudes can affect language maintenance and language change but also because such reflections and discussions can bring light to social, cultural, political and educational matters that require an interdisciplinary approach. This… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 25] 2020. xi, 274 pp.

Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia and Miguel García 2025 Introduction Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies, Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia and Miguel García (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter

Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia and Talia Bugel 2020 Introduction: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of language attitudes towards Spanish and Portuguese around the world New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bugel, Talia and Cecilia Montes-Alcalá (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter

Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia 2016 Socio-pragmatic functions of codeswitching in Nuyorican & Cuban American literature Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US, Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E., Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 191–213 | Article

This chapter emphasizes the social, pragmatic, and cultural nature of codeswitching (CS) over the search for grammatical constraints on the phenomenon. While the bulk of research performed on language mixing has concentrated on spontaneous oral production, the present investigation focuses on CS in… read more

Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia and Naomi Shin 2011 Las keys versus el key: Feminine gender assignment in mixed-language texts Spanish in Context 8:1, pp. 119–143 | Article

Previous research on language mixing has revealed similarities in written and oral production with respect to syntactic and pragmatic patterns (e.g. Callahan 2004). In this study we find, however, that the two modes of expression diverge in loanword gender assignment. English-origin NPs inserted… read more