abstract: Spanish is a pluricentric language spoken within the linguistic continuum with high variation. The understanding of the attitudes towards such variation with regard to its geography (diatopic variation) is key to capacitate its students and speakers as a foreign language to successfully communicate in changing and emerging transnational contexts. The research of linguistic attitudes is a topic that has traditionally been approached in Western contexts, with scholars requiring alternative research environments to provide a richer picture of this construct. China, given its steady growth in the number of Spanish as a foreign language students and its current role in the global, transnational arena, becomes a research environment where the study of linguistic attitudes gain even more relevance. Based on this reality, this study seeks to unveil the attitudes towards diatopic variation and towards the five most widely spoken diatopic varieties of Spanish (i.e., Mexico, Argentina, the United States, Spain, and Colombia) in Chinese students of initial level (n = 95) and their professors (n = 16). In doing so, this study collected data through (1) empirically validated questionnaires on attitudes towards diatopic variation, (2) perceptual dialectology tasks and (3) interviews. The main findings of this research showed the presence of positive attitudes towards diatopic variation by students and teachers. Such attitudes can be explained in light of their previous sociolinguistic knowledge and their previous experience as learners of a second pluricentric language. Regarding the attitudes toward the most spoken varieties, this study showed that the variety associated with Spain was the best known by the observed students and teachers, and received the categorization of prestige variety by students. Teachers did not show affective or status assessments toward any of the diatopic varieties. Further analysis of these results, based on ethnolinguistic vitality , and the levels of familiarity of students/teachers with each variety, suggests that teaching expansive proposals from initial levels can provide a more inclusive view of the diatopic variation of the Spanish language in class. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2019

Aim of this MA thesis is to describe Spanish diminutives from different points of view. After defining basic concepts from morphology and lingu- istics the study focuses on traditional and pragmatic semantics of Spanish diminutives. The pragmatic point of view is the basis for analysis of particu- lar diminutives. In the conclusion, the traditional and pragmatic approaches to Spanish diminutives are compared.

Cette thèse s’articule autour de la formation des noms et de la variation morpho-Phonologique dans les dialectes kabyles. L’analyse des données de mon propre dialecte AEH issues du dictionnaire de Dallet (1982) a montré que1. les éléments qui apparaissent au pluriel mais qui sont absents au singulier sont imprédictibles et ils font donc partie des ingrédients lexicaux de la racine ;2. à partir du dialecte d'AEH, j'ai dégagé la généralisation selon laquelle le pluriel a une taille constante de 5 unités CV. Il s'est avéré par la suite que cela est vrai en réalité pour l’ensemble des dialectes kabyles. Cette généralisation est basée sur les enquêtes de terrain que j'ai menées dans la région de Kabylie. Je propose aussi une analyse de la voyelle initiale en kabyle (et en berbère) qui prend en compte le scénario diachronique de Vycichl (1957) et Brugnatelli (1997) selon lequel en proto-Berbère il y a eu un figement d’anciens démonstratifs avec les noms. J’ai proposé que l’alternance a- (EL) vs w/u- (EA) est allomorphique. Par le même mouvement, j'ai affiné l’analyse de Bendjaballah (2011) en éliminant le CV qui épèle K (le cas). Dans mon analyse, la VII arrive avec son propre CV.Le cadre général de mon analyse est défini par la situation typologique du berbère : il s'agit d'une langue concaténative, puisqu'on ne peut attacher aucune information sémantique ou morpho-Syntaxique aux voyelles ni au gabarit ; la démonstration de la taille constante du pluriel établit par ailleurs que le berbère est gabaritique, i.e. que et les consonnes et les voyelles sont stockées ensemble dans la racine (vocalisée) et le gabarit sont stockés indépendamment dans le lexique. Si donc en sémitique est qu’en sémitique les ingrédients lexicaux d'un mot sont au nombre de trois (racine consonantique, voyelle, gabarit), en kabyle il y en a seulement deux (racine (vocalisée) et gabarit). Dans cet environnement gabaritique mais parfaitement concaténatif, la thèse développe une théorie de la variation diatopique dont les locus sont au nombre de deux : il s’agit d'une part de l’association d’une racine donnée à des gabarits différents dans différents dialectes, d'autre part de racines mélodiquement identiques mais dont des segments peuvent porter à travers les dialectes des instructions lexicales différentes quant à leur comportement lors de l'association. Etant donné le fait que les travaux sur la variation diatopique en afro-Asiatique sont clairsemés, il sera intéressant de voir si la variation dans d'autres langues fonctionne de la même façon.La façon dont la variation diatopique est gérée dans cette thèse se rapporte à la conjecture Borer-Chomsky que, suivant Oostendorp (2013), j’applique à la phonologie. Dans le cas du kabyle, la variation diatopique des singuliers n'implique pas des mécanismes différents de formation du pluriel (computation), mais des marquages lexicaux des racines à faire leur singulier dans telle ou telle classe. Enfin, j’espère que la thèse trouvera sa place dans le débat sur le statut de la racine et du gabarit dans le lexique mental des langues afro-Asiatiques : l'approche classique accorde un statut lexical, grammatical et cognitif indépendant à la racine et au gabarit, alors que la stem-Based morphology soutient que les deux unités cohabitent dans le lexique. Si la variation diatopique en kabyle fonctionne de la manière décrite, i.e. par l’association d’une racine donnée à des gabarits singuliers distincts à travers les dialectes, la racine et le gabarit représentent nécessairement deux unités lexicales indépendantes. / This thesis deals with noun formation and morpho-Phonological variation in Kabyle dialects. The analysis of the data in my own dialecte AEH from Dallet (1982) dictionary showed that1) items that appear in the plural but are absent in the singular are unpredictable and they are part of the lexical root ingredients.2) from the dialect of AEH, I've proposed the generalization that the plural has a constant size 5 CV units. It turned out later that this is true in fact for all Kabyle dialects. This generalization is based on field research that I conducted in the Kabylie region.I also proposed an analysis of the initial vowel in Kabyle (and Berber) which takes into account the diachronic scenario of Vycichl (1957) et Brugnatelli (1997) that in Proto-Berber there has been a congealing former demonstrative with names. I suggested that alternating a-(EL) vs w/u (EA) is allomorphic. By the same movement, I refined analysis Bendjaballah (2011) by removing the CV that spells out K (the case). In my analysis, VII arrives with his own CV. The general framework of my analysis is defined by the Berber typological situation: it is a concatenative language, since we cannot attach any semantic or morpho-Syntactic information to vowels or template; demonstration of constant size plural also establishes that Berber is templatic, i.e. and that consonants and vowels are stored together in the root (vocalized) and the template are stored independently in the lexicon. If so Semitic lexical ingredients of a word are three in number (consonant root vowel template), in Kabyle there are only two (root (vocalized) and template).In this templatic but perfectly concatenative environment, the thesis develops a theory of diatopic variation whose locus are two in number: combination of a given root to different templates in different dialects in one hand, and in the other hand, roots melodically identical but whose segments can carry of across the dialects different lexical instructions about their behavior at time of association. Given the fact that work on diatopic variation in Afro-Asiatic are sparse, it will be interesting to see if the variation in other languages works in the same way.How diatopic variation is handled in this thesis relates to the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture that, according Oostendorp (2013), I apply to phonology. In the case of Kabyle, diatopic variation of singulars does not imply different mechanisms of plural formation (computation), but lexical markings to their unique roots in a particular class.Finally, I hope that the thesis will find its place in the debate on the status of the root and template in the mental lexicon of Afro-Asiatic languages: the classical approach gives an independent lexical, grammatical and cognitive status to the root and template, while the stem-Based morphology supports both units coexist in the lexicon. If diatopic variation in Kabyle works as described, i.e. by the association of a given root to a distinct singular templates across dialects, the root and template necessarily represent two independent tokens.

El propósito de este estudio es investigar las actitudes lingüísticas de tres grupos de profesores procedentes de España, Suecia y América Latina, hacia las variedades lingüísticas del español en la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera (ELE) en Suecia.Los resultados, basados en un cuestionario con un grupo de informantes relativamente limitado, muestran que una clara mayoría opina que se debe enseñar tanto el español de Europa y de América Latina. Ninguno de los informantes tiene preferencia hacia el español de América Latina, mientras que una minoría considerable se inclina por un español de España. Esta actitud positiva hacia la variedad peninsular es más marcada entre profesores de origen español y entre los profesores que enseñan en el nivel primario en las escuelas suecas.En el cuestionario también se ha comparado la incorporación de aspectos gramaticales, lexicales y fonológicos. Se ha considerado que el grupo de informantes no es suficiente amplio como para poder generalizar los resultados. / The purpose of this study is to investigate three groups of teachers from Spain, Sweden and Latin America regarding their attitudes towards the varieties of Spanish in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) in Sweden.The results, based on a questionnaire with a relatively limited group of informants, show that a big majority of informants believe that both the Spanish of Spain and Latin American Spanish should be taught. None of the informants had the preference for teaching Latin American Spanish, while a considerable minority was inclined towards Spanish from Spain. This positive attitude towards the peninsular variety is more recognized among teachers of Spanish origin and among the teachers who teaches at the primary school level in Sweden.Grammatical, lexical and phonological aspects have also been compared in the questionnaire but the number of informants in each group was too small for the results to be generalized.

Cette thèse de doctorat étudie l'utilisation discursive des régionalismes, ou diatopismes, du français en alliant les perspectives de la linguistique variationniste et de l'analyse du discours. L'étude fournit un développement conceptuel, terminologique et méthodologique détaillé en matière de diatopie et des contraintes qui pèsent sur l'usage de diatopismes dans le discours. Elle explicite en particulier la méthode d'analyse appliquée en termes différentiels, pour la description des diatopismes et l'interprétation des sources et des enquêtes de terrain menée par l'auteure, ainsi que pour l'analyse du discours. À partir de l'analyse des procédés discursifs qui présentent les diatopismes en autonymie (les mises en relief) et de leur distribution discursive, un nouveau paradigme sociopragmatique permet d'interpréter les caractéristiques pragmatiques et sociolinguistiques des diatopismes dans le discours. Le corps de l'analyse est présenté sous la forme d'articles dictionnairiques, complétant un modèle lexicographique différentiel de rubriques qui sont consacrées aux aspects discursifs et sociopragmatiques des diatopismes étudiés. L'analyse philologique porte sur tous les diatopismes qui sont mis en relief dans l'ensemble des vingt-six romans grand public du Vendéen Yves Viollier, publiés de 1972 à 2009, et qui appartiennent à la communauté sociolinguistique de ce dernier. L'étude montre que les mises en relief, tributaires de l'orientation réaliste des romans étudiés, sont relativement rares, et que la création de l'ethos du 'régional' passe dans ceux-ci par un choix original de diatopismes, et non par des clichés largement partagés. / This doctoral dissertation studying the use of French regionalisms, or diatopicisms, in literature, is situated in the fields of variationist linguistics and of discourse analysis. The study offers a detailed description of the concepts and current terminology in the recent discipline of Francophone differential linguistics as well as in the related branches of French discourse analysis. It pays particular attention to the methods applied in the identification of diatopic elements and the interpretation of existing sources – completed by field studies conducted by the author – as well as for an appropriate discourse analysis of diatopicisms in literature. Developing a new sociopragmatic paradigm, the author analyses the strategies that present meta-linguistically highlighted diatopicisms and their textual distribution in order to interpret what these procedures say obliquely about the diatopicisms in terms of their pragmatic and sociolinguistic characteristics. The large corpus analysis is presented in the form of dictionary articles, based on a model developed in French differential lexicography, and enriched by sociopragmatic sections. The author analyses all highlighted diatopicisms in the twenty-six popular novels of Yves Viollier which belong to the latter's sociolinguistic community (Vendée). The study shows that the strategies highlighting diatopicisms in the analysed novels – published from 1972 to 2009, realist and partly regionalist – are relatively rare. The ethos of the novelist's home region is partly created by the use of diatopicisms – but this is achieved through original choices, rather than largely shared stereotypes.

En Brasil, la variación lingüística diatópica adquiere relevancia en la enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera, debido a la situación geográfica del país entre Hispanoaméricana y a causa de sus relaciones económicas y culturales, por una parte, con los demás países latinoamericanos, cuya lengua oficial es el español, y por otra, con España. El presente trabajo se centra en el estudio de las actitudes y creencias lingüísticas hacia las variedades diatópicas del español por parte de estudiantes universitarios brasileños de ELE, ya que dichas actitudes y creencias desempeñan un importante papel en la motivación que tienen por aprender, y por ende, en su grado de adquisición de la lengua extranjera. Además de estudiar sistemáticamente las percepciones y las actitudes en relación con las variedades del español, este estudio busca investigar concretamente las actitudes hacia las formas de tratamiento en español (tú, vos, usted, vosotros y ustedes), ya que suponen realizaciones lingüísticas ciertamente variables, tanto geográfica como estilísticamente. Asimismo, contemplamos analizar si existen relaciones entre la proficiencia lingüística de los encuestados, su perfil académico y el contacto que tienen con hablantes de variedades de español y las actitudes generales que declaran tener hacia tales variedades. En base a datos empíricos, consideramos las implicaciones que tienen los resultados para la enseñanza de ELE en un contexto en el que el español se concibe como una lengua pluricéntrica. Para investigar estas variables, utilizamos un cuestionario, que suministramos a 60 estudiantes que cursan español en el Centro de Ensino de Línguas de la Universidade Estadual de Campinas y que, además, realizan sus estudios en esta misma universidad. A través de técnicas de observación de actitudes tanto directas como indirectas, y mediante el estudio cuantitativo y cualitativo de las variables que analizamos, concluimos que existe una prevalencia por las variedades latinoamericanas con respecto a la variedad peninsular por parte de los estudiantes brasileños de ELE, lo cual supone un contraste con investigaciones previas realizadas en este ámbito. En el caso de las actitudes hacia las formas de tratamiento, los resultados de la investigación muestran que no existe una correspondencia de estas actitudes con las actitudes generales hacia las variedades diatópicas, puesto que la forma vos, característica exclusivamente de variedades latinoamericanas, se concibe como una de las menos utilizadas y una de las más innecesarias en el uso de la lengua española. / In Brazil, diatopic language variation gains importance in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language, due to the geographic situation of Brazil between Spanish America and as a result of its economic and cultural relations, on the one hand, with the other Latin American countries, whose official language is Spanish, and on the other hand, with Spain. This paper focuses on the study of attitudes and linguistic beliefs towards diatopic varieties of Spanish by Brazilian students of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL), since such attitudes and beliefs play an important role in motivating students to learn, and therefore, in their acquisition level of the foreign language. Apart from systematically studying the perceptions and attitudes regarding the diatopic varieties of Spanish, this study seeks to specifically investigate attitudes towards the forms of address in Spanish (tú, vos, usted, vosotros and ustedes), because it is a variable linguistic topic, both geographically and stylistically. Furthermore, it studies the relationship between language proficiency of the students, their academic profile and their contact with speakers of varieties of Spanish as well as the general attitudes that they have towards Hispanic varieties. Based on empirical data, the discussion considers implications for teaching of SFL in a context where Spanish is conceived as a pluricentric language. To investigate all these variables, a questionnaire was distributed to 60 Brazilian students enrolled in the Spanish courses of the Language Learning Centre at the University of Campinas, who also follow their undergraduate and posgraduate studies at the same university. Using both direct and indirect observation techniques regarding attitudes, and quantitative and qualitative analysis, the paper concludes that there is a preference for the Latin American varieties compared to the Peninsular varieties amongst Brazilian students of Spanish. These results are different from the ones presented in previous research in this area. In the case of attitudes towards the forms of address in Spanish, the results show that there is no correspondence of these attitudes with the general attitudes towards diatopic varieties, since vos, which is exclusively characteristic of the Latin American varieties, is conceived as one of the least used and most unnecessary forms in Spanish.

Theoretical aspects of vocabulary variability in American Spanish Diachrony and synchrony Anna Mištinová Abstract As a multinational and multicultural language, the Spanish language offers, despite its unity, a large number of differences on all linguistic planes. This dissertation's subject consists of an examination of fundamental theoretical questions concerning the variation of American Spanish's vocabulary on a diachronous and synchronous level. A diatopic approach in particular is employed with a focus on geographic-linguistic aspects. Based on theories of variation and other general theoretical aspects, an analysis is conducted on the differences and divergences of the lexicon in Hispano-American variations, on the main sources and causes of changes in comparison with European Spanish, on the origin and nature of the language in the early phases of the New World's conquering and the innovative influence of autochthonous substrates and adstrates. Linguistic contacts made in both the past and present occupy a significant place in this examination, and an emphasis is placed on the Spanish - indigenous languages - English triangle. Another area of focus consists of loanwords in Hispanic America, the process of their adaptation and assimilation. Also among the wide range of theoretical questions that this...

Este trabajo estudia la relación de hablantes brasileños de portugués con elementos de diferentes variedades diatópicas del español, en términos de conocimiento y de actitudes lingüísticas, con el objetivo de extraer implicaciones para la enseñanza del español lengua extranjera (ELE) y de sus variedades geográficas en Brasil. Este país tiene amplios vínculos económicos y culturales con España, que es también el líder mundial en la enseñanza de ELE. Sin embargo, Brasil se embarcó también en un vasto proceso de integración latinoamericana, principalmente a través de la creación del Mercosur, gracias al que establece relaciones profundas y duraderas con los países australes. Este contexto plural y ambivalente tiene sin duda repercusiones en la práctica de la lengua española en el país, pero ¿cuáles? y ¿cómo debería responder la enseñanza a este contexto particular? La investigación, con el objetivo de contestar estas preguntas, se realizó mediante un cuestionario en línea que fue contestado por 92 informantes, residentes de varios estados de Brasil. Esta encuesta, además de una parte de datos sociológicos, se componía de un apartado sobre acentos y musicalidades, donde los informantes tenían que valorar grabaciones de diferentes variedades del español sin conocer su origen, y un apartado sobre gramática y léxico, en el que se pedía a los encuestados elegir, entre grupos de frases equivalentes, los elementos que más conocían en un primer paso, y los que les parecían más correctos/válidos en un segundo paso. Los resultados mostraron que, en la parte de acentos y musicalidades, las variantes más familiares, es decir la castellana y la argentina, eran globalmente las más valoradas, en cuanto que la de México era la menos apreciada. En el apartado de gramática y léxico, se constató que los elementos americanos hablados en la zona austral, es decir la más próxima a Brasil, eran bastante reconocidos, pero no tanto como los peninsulares o “menos americanos”. En cuanto a los americanismos de zonas geográficas lejanas a Brasil, eran muy poco conocidos y legitimados. A la vista del contexto brasileño y de sus necesidades de practicar la lengua española en el ámbito del Mercosur, lo que se constata es que el lugar dado a los elementos australes es aún insuficiente, y que los profesionales de la enseñanza de ELE deberían perder el miedo a enseñar con una variedad de base americana, para responder a las necesidades de comunicación reales de los alumnos. / The study at hand explores the relationship between Brazilian Portuguese speakers and elements of several diatopic varieties of Spanish language in terms of knowledge and linguistic attitudes. We then discuss the possible implications of our findings in relationship to the didactic field of Spanish as a foreign language and the geographical varieties spoken in Brazil. This country has important economic and cultural links with Spain, which is also the world’s leader in teaching Spanish as a second language. Brazil is also involved in a large process of Latin American integration, mainly through the creation of Mercosur, thanks to which it has establish deep and durable relations with south American countries. This plural and ambivalent context has, without a doubt, had an influence on the use of Spanish in Brazil. But what kind of influence? And how should the field of didactics respond to this particular context? In order to answer these questions, we have carried out an online survey, which was completed by 92 participants in several states of Brazil. This survey, in conjunction to a sociological questionnaire, was comprised by a section dedicated to accent and musicality, where the participants had to rate recordings of different varieties of Spanish without knowing their origin. It also included a section related to grammar and vocabulary, where the participants had to choose elements which they knew, and elements they thought were more correct/valid from a group of equivalents sentences. The results showed that, in the “accent and musicality” section, the most familiar varieties – both Castellan and Argentinian  – were better rated, while the Mexican variation was the less valued. In the “grammar and vocabulary” section, it was found that the American elements used in the southern cone – Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay – all countries close to Brazil, were well known and valued, but not as much as the peninsular or “less American” elements. In regards to the American elements used in distant dialectal areas of Brazil, they were little known or legitimized. Given Brazil’s context and its need to use the Spanish language in a Mercosur setting, we conclude that insufficient attention is given to the American elements of Spanish. We also note that professionals teaching Spanish as a second language in Brazil have to lose their fear of teaching Spanish in an American variety in order to respond to student’s language needs.