Bryan Kirschen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bryan Kirschen is involved.

Title

Orality, Identity, and Resistance in Palenque (Colombia): An interdisciplinary approach

Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bryan Kirschen and Graciela Maglia

Located near Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Palenque is a former Afro-Hispanic maroon community that has recently attracted much national and international attention. The authors of this collection examine Palenque’s linguistic, geographic, and cultural origins from interdisciplinary and… read more

[Contact Language Library, 54] 2017. xvii, 323 pp.

Articles

Kirschen, Bryan 2025 Chapter 10. Global encounters: Discourse in and about Haketia, the Judeo‑Spanish of Morocco Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact, Ali, Farah, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed (eds.), pp. 185–219 | Chapter

Utilizing just over 10 hours of content from the online Enkontros de Alhad series, this study examines contemporary discourse in and about Haketia. This paper considers contact between Western and Eastern Judeo-Spanish as well the use of Arabic-originating lexicon in the former variety. A… read more

Kirschen, Bryan 2020 Spanish in the 2016 U.S. presidential election: Semiotic processes of political discourse Spanish in Context 17:1, pp. 131–152 | Article

This study analyzes discourse in and about Spanish by presidential hopefuls and their prospective running mates leading up to the 2016 United States presidential election. I utilize Irvine and Gal’s (2000) framework of semiotic processes to reveal how Democratic and Republican politicians… read more