Patricia Gubitosi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1532454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Gubitosi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gubitosi |
| SIGNATURE | GUBITOSI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1117-8886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ecuadorians in NYC
Given that Ecuadorians are one of the largest groups of Hispanics living in New York, they have become a tight community that they now call little Ecuador. Although Ecuadorians living in the diaspora in NYC come from different parts of the country (mostly from the Andean region), they share the same cultural practices they performed in Ecuador that give them the sense of being in their country without bearing the instability and turmoil their cou…
Visibility and (re)vitalization
Recent sociolinguistic research has shown the impact of public use of language expressions on people’s attitudes towards their language and how language can be susceptible to its environments. In this regard, the linguistic landscape (henceforth, LL ) of a community helps sociolinguists to examine and decipher the power relationships of languages used in any bi/multilingual community. The presence or absence of a language in the public space carr…
Lunfardo and political (dis)agreements in the public space
Linguistic landscapes are useful tools to decipher language ideologies that regulate public spaces in society, helping us to decode the semiotic messages that those landscapes transmit. Urban spaces also reveal social practices that organize people’s lives and unveil social discourses that legitimize, approve, erode, or eliminate different linguistic varieties that struggle to survive. This article examines the use of (mock) Lunfardo, a Spanish u…
Language-power relationship, linguistic identity and the struggle for survival
The analysis of a community’s linguistic landscape has proven to be an excellent tool not only in portraying, but also in evaluating and interpreting what languages are used in a single place (and what languages seem to be invisible), what the vitality of any of these languages is, and the relative influence that each linguistic variety within that community has and how it relates to the other varieties in terms of power, visibility and functiona…
The motivations of heritage and non-heritage students in learning portuguese in L(USA)land
This study investigates the motivations of both heritage and non-heritage students of Portuguese at two universities in Rhode Island where Portuguese-speaking migrant communities have settled and their language has strong visibility. Attention is drawn to motivation since it is known to be a significant factor in the development of linguistic proficiency. The results of this study underscore a difference in students’ motivation for studying Portu…
Linguistic Landscape and the Struggle for Survival
Since Linguistic Landscape is an extraordinary tool not only to describe, but also to analyze and decode languages used in public spaces, the authors in this chapter investigate the semiotic value of a critically endangered Philippine Creole Spanish variety, Cavite Chabacano, as it is displayed in the rural administrative units wherein the remaining speakers reside and in the main street of Cavite City. The study analyzes not only the languages u…
The Dialects of Spanish
Reviewed by: The Dialects of Spanish: A Lexical Introduction by Travis D. Sorenson Patricia Gubitosi Sorenson, Travis D. The Dialects of Spanish: A Lexical Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2021. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-1-108-92718-5. This is a very interesting book that investigates Spanish dialectology from a lexical point of view. It is, perhaps, the most important work on dialectal isoglosses since the twentieth-century discussion of various dialectal re…
(Re)negotiation of the cultural and linguistic identities of the Azorean Portuguese in Eastern Massachusetts
Linguistic identity of migrant communities is highly related to cultural practices. Given that social and individual identity emerges through social interaction and discursive practices where the role of linguistic processes is fundamental, this paper analyses how Portuguese migrants and their descendants negotiate and contest their cultural and linguistic identity while struggling to maintain their language and traditions in Eastern Massachusett…
Landscaping an Ecuadorian neighborhood in Queens, NY
Diaspora studies on migration communities have shown how these transnational groups appropriate the new space in the receptive country through a process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. These processes involve a reinterpretation and reconceptualization of the linguistic relationship between the language of the diaspora group and those spoken in the new home. One of the most visible places where this contextual relation must be ne…
Parentéticos by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez
Reviewed by: Parentéticos by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez Patricia Gubitosi Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina. Parentéticos. Arcos/Libros La Muralla 2018. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-8-47635-980-8. Partiendo de un enfoque pragmalingüístico, Parentéticos analiza con minucioso detalle las construcciones parentéticas desde un punto de vista amplio donde la autora hace dialogar la macrosintaxis con otros campos discursivos constituyendo lo que ha dado en llamar multi-…
Español en la Red
El español en la red
El desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías ha modificado la manera en que los seres humanos nos comunicamos, de modo que el estudio de ese campo ha ido concitando cada vez más el interés de los lingüistas. Pese a la gran difusión que el tema ha suscitado en investigadores de lengua inglesa, el español aún sigue en deuda en la producción de un texto de referencia que investigue este fenómeno en su totalidad. Este libro intenta cubrir ese vacío, exami…
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El español en la red
El desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías ha modificado la manera en que los seres humanos nos comunicamos, de modo que el estudio de ese campo ha ido concitando cada vez más el interés de los lingüistas. Pese a la gran difusión que el tema ha suscitado en investigadores de lengua inglesa, el español aún sigue en deuda en la producción de un texto de referencia que investigue este fenómeno en su totalidad. Este libro intenta cubrir ese vacío, exami…
Español en la Red
(Re)negotiation of the cultural and linguistic identities of the Azorean Portuguese in Eastern Massachusetts
Linguistic identity of migrant communities is highly related to cultural practices. Given that social and individual identity emerges through social interaction and discursive practices where the role of linguistic processes is fundamental, this paper analyses how Portuguese migrants and their descendants negotiate and contest their cultural and linguistic identity while struggling to maintain their language and traditions in Eastern Massachusett…
Landscaping an Ecuadorian neighborhood in Queens, NY
Diaspora studies on migration communities have shown how these transnational groups appropriate the new space in the receptive country through a process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. These processes involve a reinterpretation and reconceptualization of the linguistic relationship between the language of the diaspora group and those spoken in the new home. One of the most visible places where this contextual relation must be ne…
Parentéticos by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez
Reviewed by: Parentéticos by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez Patricia Gubitosi Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina. Parentéticos. Arcos/Libros La Muralla 2018. Pp. 256. ISBN 978-8-47635-980-8. Partiendo de un enfoque pragmalingüístico, Parentéticos analiza con minucioso detalle las construcciones parentéticas desde un punto de vista amplio donde la autora hace dialogar la macrosintaxis con otros campos discursivos constituyendo lo que ha dado en llamar multi-…
Lunfardo and political (dis)agreements in the public space
Linguistic landscapes are useful tools to decipher language ideologies that regulate public spaces in society, helping us to decode the semiotic messages that those landscapes transmit. Urban spaces also reveal social practices that organize people’s lives and unveil social discourses that legitimize, approve, erode, or eliminate different linguistic varieties that struggle to survive. This article examines the use of (mock) Lunfardo, a Spanish u…
Language-power relationship, linguistic identity and the struggle for survival
The analysis of a community’s linguistic landscape has proven to be an excellent tool not only in portraying, but also in evaluating and interpreting what languages are used in a single place (and what languages seem to be invisible), what the vitality of any of these languages is, and the relative influence that each linguistic variety within that community has and how it relates to the other varieties in terms of power, visibility and functiona…
The motivations of heritage and non-heritage students in learning portuguese in L(USA)land
This study investigates the motivations of both heritage and non-heritage students of Portuguese at two universities in Rhode Island where Portuguese-speaking migrant communities have settled and their language has strong visibility. Attention is drawn to motivation since it is known to be a significant factor in the development of linguistic proficiency. The results of this study underscore a difference in students’ motivation for studying Portu…
Linguistic Landscape and the Struggle for Survival
Since Linguistic Landscape is an extraordinary tool not only to describe, but also to analyze and decode languages used in public spaces, the authors in this chapter investigate the semiotic value of a critically endangered Philippine Creole Spanish variety, Cavite Chabacano, as it is displayed in the rural administrative units wherein the remaining speakers reside and in the main street of Cavite City. The study analyzes not only the languages u…
The Dialects of Spanish
Reviewed by: The Dialects of Spanish: A Lexical Introduction by Travis D. Sorenson Patricia Gubitosi Sorenson, Travis D. The Dialects of Spanish: A Lexical Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2021. Pp. 319. ISBN 978-1-108-92718-5. This is a very interesting book that investigates Spanish dialectology from a lexical point of view. It is, perhaps, the most important work on dialectal isoglosses since the twentieth-century discussion of various dialectal re…
Visibility and (re)vitalization
Recent sociolinguistic research has shown the impact of public use of language expressions on people’s attitudes towards their language and how language can be susceptible to its environments. In this regard, the linguistic landscape (henceforth, LL ) of a community helps sociolinguists to examine and decipher the power relationships of languages used in any bi/multilingual community. The presence or absence of a language in the public space carr…
Ecuadorians in NYC
Given that Ecuadorians are one of the largest groups of Hispanics living in New York, they have become a tight community that they now call little Ecuador. Although Ecuadorians living in the diaspora in NYC come from different parts of the country (mostly from the Andean region), they share the same cultural practices they performed in Ecuador that give them the sense of being in their country without bearing the instability and turmoil their cou…
Linguistics (9 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistic landscape (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (4 works)