Spanish in Context

Executive Editor

Francisco Moreno-Fernández | Universidad de Alcalá & Heidelberg University

Co-editors

Lucía Cantamutto | Universidad Nacional de Río Negro

Andrew Lynch | University of Miami)

Rosina Márquez Reiter | The Open University, UK

Review Editor

Isolda E. Carranza | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Editorial Assistant

Héctor Álvarez-Mella | Heidelberg University

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Spanish in Context publishes original theoretical, empirical and methodological studies into pragmatics and sociopragmatics, variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse and conversation analysis, functional contextual analyses, bilingualism, and crosscultural and intercultural communication with the aim of extending our knowledge of Spanish and of these disciplines themselves.

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ISSN: 1571-0718 | E-ISSN: 1571‑0726

https://doi.org/10.1075/sic

10 December 2025

Semantic persistence in Spanish temporal constructions: The case of llevar + time and tener + time constructions

Katharine Brownshire & Juliana De la Mora Gutiérrez | SIC 22:3 (2025) pp. 657–688

Digital metacommunication: Exploring language attitudes towards Voseo across social media platforms

Abby Killam | SIC 22:3 (2025) pp. 625–656

La ciudadanía en el imaginario colectivo de los italoargentinos: Construcciones discursivas identitarias y narrativas transgeneracionales

Gianluca Pontrandolfo | SIC 22:3 (2025) pp. 594–624

11 November 2025

“Decorative” morphology in Spanish: At the crossroads of typology and sociolinguistics

Antonio Benítez-Burraco & Bárbara Marqueta Gracia

An exploration into modality, interpersonal meanings and intonation in peer interaction

Mercedes Cabrera-Abreu & Eva Estebas-Vilaplana | SIC 22:3 (2025) pp. 572–593

La crisis del covid: Narrativas del Paisaje Lingüístico de Madrid

Ester Saiz de Lobado & Adil Moustaoui | SIC 22:3 (2025) pp. 517–544

19 September 2025

Linguistic labels of disabled people in Colombian news outlets: An exploratory corpus-based study

David L. García León, Javier E. García León & Mónica Rodríguez-Castro | SIC 22:3 (2025) pp. 487–516

2 September 2025

Rosina Márquez Reiter & Adriana Patiño Santos (Eds.). 2023. Language practices and processes among Latin Americans in Europe

Reviewed by Ana María Relaño Pastor | SIC 22:3 (2025) pp. 689–692

18 August 2025

Sociolinguistic and functional variation in the use of direct reported speech in Spanish in the corpus CoLaGe-Valencia

Pekka Posio, Sven Kachel & Gloria Uclés-Ramada | SIC 22:2 (2025) pp. 393–418

8 August 2025

Revisiting stop aspiration: A view from Mayan bilingual communities in Quintana Roo

Mariela Abigail Chi-Baack | SIC 22:2 (2025) pp. 344–369

Heritage Spanish in Brussels: Case study on coda /s/ production by Andalusian women

Samantha Pérez Rodríguez, An Vande Casteele & Rik Vosters | SIC 22:3 (2025) pp. 545–571

Patrones y funciones discursivas de seis encapsuladores nominales en español en la escritura académica de estudiantes universitarios

Carolina Urizar-Ocampo | SIC 22:2 (2025) pp. 445–471

Francisco Moreno-Fernández & Rocío Caravedo (Eds.). 2023. Dialectología hispánica. The Routledge handbook of Spanish dialectology

Reseña de Darío Daniel Delicia | SIC 22:2 (2025) pp. 472–486

5 August 2025

Acquisition of segmental and suprasegmental features of Granada accent by long-term residents with L1 Polish

Edyta Waluch de la Torre & Alfredo Herrero de Haro | SIC 22:2 (2025) pp. 419–444

29 July 2025

La percepción de las variedades cultas del español por parte de los hablantes cántabros conforme al proyecto PRECAVES XXI

Inmaculada Martínez Martínez, Marta Gancedo Ruiz & Alex E. Valentín Paucar | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 51–81

28 July 2025

Glotopolítica de la lengua española: El antipanhispanismo a debate desde el materialismo filosófico

Daniel Pinto Pajares | SIC 22:2 (2025) pp. 370–392

2 June 2025

La percepción de las variedades cultas del español por parte de los chilenos: Estudio de dialectología perceptiva a partir de los datos del PRECAVES XXI

Silvana Guerrero González, Marco Espinoza Alvarado, Valentina Espinoza Díaz & Javier González Riffo | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 243–273

El español en la mente de sus hablantes: Una exploración desde la dialectología perceptiva

Cristina Illamola | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 1–16

16 May 2025

La percepción de las variedades cultas del español por parte de los barceloneses: Aportaciones desde la dialectología perceptiva a partir del proyecto PRECAVES XXI

Cristina Illamola | SIC 22:1 (2025) p. 82

La percepción de las variedades del español por parte de los hablantes granadinos: Un estudio de dialectología perceptiva a partir de PRECAVES XXI

Rocío Cruz Ortiz & Antonio Manjón-Cabeza Cruz | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 114–146

Los habaneros ante las variedades cultas del español del Proyecto: PRECAVES XXI

Nayara Ortega Someillán, Roxana Sobrino Triana & Ana María González Mafud | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 182–209

13 May 2025

La percepción de las variedades del español en Mallorca: Dialectología perceptiva a partir del PRECAVES XXI

Laura Camargo Fernández & Beatriz Méndez Guerrero | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 17–50

Actitudes y percepciones de las variedades normativas del español por parte de los antioqueños: Análisis del PRECAVES XXI en Colombia

Diana Marcela Muñoz-Builes, María Claudia González-Rátiva, Rebeca Rendón-Cadavid, María Alejandra Ramírez-Giraldo & Ana Isabel Torres López | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 274–302

6 May 2025

La percepción de las variedades cultas del español por parte de los bonaerenses: Un estudio de dialectología perceptiva a partir del PRECAVES XXI

Claudia Borzi & Sofía Gutiérrez Böhmer | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 210–242

28 April 2025

Las variedades del español según los canarios no lingüistas: Apuntes de dialectología perceptiva

Marta Samper Hernández | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 147–181

22 April 2025

Ana M. Cestero Mancera & Florentino Paredes García (eds.). 2022. La percepción de la variedad castellana. Creencias y actitudes lingüísticas en el siglo XXI

Reseña de Maribel Serrano Zapata | SIC 22:1 (2025) pp. 303–310

17 April 2025

Expressing future tense in Spanish: A cross-dialectal comparative analysis

Juan Manuel Escalona Torres, Dylan Jarrett & Manuel Antonio Díaz-Campos | SIC 22:2 (2025) pp. 311–343

28 January 2025

A minority within a minority: Dialectal accommodation by Speakers of Central American varieties of Spanish in Nebraska

Isabel Velázquez & Marcelo Gomes Pérez | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 563–597

Susana Rodríguez Rosique & Jordi M. Antolí Martínez (eds.). 2023. Verb and Context. The impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories

Reseña de Verónica Nercesian | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 648–656

Adam Schwartz. 2023. Spanish So White: Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of a “Foreign” Language Education

Reviewed by Brendan H. O’Connor | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 657–661

16 January 2025

Marcas de flexión verbal en español: Análisis de frecuencia en el corpus PRESEEA-Santander

Inmaculada Martínez-Martínez & Hiroto Ueda | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 455–483

Impersonal expressions in Texas Spanish: An analysis of sociopragmatic variation

Allison Milner | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 598–621

9 January 2025

“¿Otra vez con fame? ¡Menudo llambión!”: An approximation to linguistic attitudes in Asturias

Alba Arias Álvarez & María Turrero García | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 484–511

Diferencias dialectales en el orden de palabras en las construcciones de más + palabras negativas

Marina Bonilla-Conejo, Elsa Cembrero Bonet, Rocio Leguisamon Tolentino, Ethan Sims & Sara Zahler | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 431–454

Cuando baja el sol: A variationist analysis of subject position in bilingual Arizonan and monolingual Mexican Spanish

Sean McKinnon & Daniel Jung | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 537–562

“Le falta barrio”: Actitudes sobre la variación léxica hispanoamericana en comentarios a la “batalla de idiomas”

Nicolás Panzuto Piccini & Daniel Cassany | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 622–647

6 January 2025

Revisiting the reported speech as a mitigation device in the PRESEEA-Seville oral corpus

Doina Repede | SIC 21:3 (2024) pp. 512–536

Issues

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Ideologías lingüísticas y el español en contexto histórico

Volume 6 (2009)

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Spanish Maintenance and Loss in the U.S. Southwest

Volume 5 (2008)

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Volume 3 (2006)

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Language Variation and Change: Historical and contemporary perspectives

Volume 2 (2005)

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Executive Editor

Francisco Moreno-Fernández | Universidad de Alcalá & Heidelberg University

Co-editors

Lucía Cantamutto | Universidad Nacional de Río Negro

Andrew Lynch | University of Miami)

Rosina Márquez Reiter | The Open University, UK

Review Editor

Isolda E. Carranza | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Editorial Assistant

Héctor Álvarez-Mella | Heidelberg University

Editorial Board

Antonio Briz | Universidad de Valencia

Yvette Bürki | Bern University

Rocío Caravedo | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Ana M. Cestero Mancera | Universidad de Alcalá here

M. Victoria Escandell-Vidal | Universidad Complutense de Madrid

J. César Félix-Brasdefer | Indiana University

Sybille Große | Heidelberg University

Carol A. Klee | University of Minnesota

Bettina Kluge | University of Hildesheim

Jennifer Leeman | George Mason University

Nuria Lorenzo-Dus | Swansea University & Universitat Politècnica de València

Óscar Loureda | Heidelberg University

Norma Mendoza-Denton | University of California Los Angeles

Teresa Oteíza | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Azucena Palacios Alcaine | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Derrin Pinto | University of St. Thomas

Kim Potowski | University of Illinois at Chicago

Chase Wesley Raymond | University of Colorado

Naomi Shin | University of New Mexico

Antonio Torres Torres | University of Barcelona

Daniel J. Villa | New Mexico State University

Ana Celia Zentella | University of California at San Diego

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