Mercedes Niño‐Murcia
Biographic Data
| ID | 6364601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mercedes Niño‐Murcia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mercedes |
| FAMILY NAME | Niño‐Murcia |
| SIGNATURE | MURCIA M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Spanish Standardization
A linguistic standard is an abstract model of a given real‐life language, proposing to define correct, pure, or genuine usages.
Linguistic Diversity and Plurality in Meso‐ and South America
This entry examines the variety and nomenclature of indigenous languages in their interaction with imperial European languages from the fifteenth century onward. Groups resisted or accommodated Europeans by learning their languages, with consequences for both European and indigenous tongues. In modernity most indigenous languages have lost speakers or perished, but some groups resist language inequality or negotiate language maintainance. Languag…
The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village’s Way with Writing
Spanish as a World Language: The Interplay of Globalized Localization and Localized Globalization
This article argues that two movements in constant interplay operate within the historical trajectory of the Spanish language: the localization that becomes globalized and the globalization that becomes localized. Equally, this article illustrates how, at the same time that Spanish is expanding in the world, new idiosyncratic and localized forms of the language are emerging. This article deals with the issues of standardization and language ideol…
Bilingualism and identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages
English is like the dollar: Hard currency ideology and the status of English in Peru
This paper presents observations from an agro-pastoral village in the Andes, at the periphery of Lima and from an upper-class shopping area, and discusses attitudes toward the state-driven promotion of English. In these communities, a nearly universal ideology in Peru manifests itself in the belief that "hard currency" cultural capital in the form of English competence is needed for technological advancement, employment opportunities, national pr…
Late-stage standardization and language ideology in the Colombian press
Article Late-stage standardization and language ideology in the Colombian press was published on June 5, 2001 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2001, issue 149)
Linguistic Purism in Cuzco, Peru: A Historical Perspective
Purismo lingüístico en Cuzco, Peru: Perspectiva histórica En Cuzco, Peru, un grupo de intelectuales mestizos afirma que Qhpaj'simi es el quechua que usaron los nobles incas hace muchos siglos y por lo tanto es la forma más pura de la lengua. Con base en esta premisa se establece una jerarquía social en la cual el uso de la "lengua imperial" es el marcador que separa a sus usuarios de la gente común, usuarios del runa simi. Puesto que las actitude…
Política del purismo lingüístico en el Cuzco
El artículo no presenta resumen
Impositive Speech Acts in Northern Andean Spanish: A Pragmatic Description
Northern Andean Spanish NAS possesses a complex system of structures which are used in impositive speech acts. NAS speakers choose from several grammatical possibilities when they ask their in- terlocutor to perform an action. The selection seems to be governed by the complex rules of politeness in the NAS communities. We summarize the grammatical possibilities and attempt to explain how the different are used to indicate different levels of poli…
El futuro sintético en el español norandino: Caso de mandato atenuado
English is like the dollar: Hard currency ideology and the status of English in Peru
This paper presents observations from an agro-pastoral village in the Andes, at the periphery of Lima and from an upper-class shopping area, and discusses attitudes toward the state-driven promotion of English. In these communities, a nearly universal ideology in Peru manifests itself in the belief that "hard currency" cultural capital in the form of English competence is needed for technological advancement, employment opportunities, national pr…
Linguistic Purism in Cuzco, Peru: A Historical Perspective
Purismo lingüístico en Cuzco, Peru: Perspectiva histórica En Cuzco, Peru, un grupo de intelectuales mestizos afirma que Qhpaj'simi es el quechua que usaron los nobles incas hace muchos siglos y por lo tanto es la forma más pura de la lengua. Con base en esta premisa se establece una jerarquía social en la cual el uso de la "lengua imperial" es el marcador que separa a sus usuarios de la gente común, usuarios del runa simi. Puesto que las actitude…
Late-stage standardization and language ideology in the Colombian press
Article Late-stage standardization and language ideology in the Colombian press was published on June 5, 2001 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2001, issue 149)
Impositive Speech Acts in Northern Andean Spanish: A Pragmatic Description
Northern Andean Spanish NAS possesses a complex system of structures which are used in impositive speech acts. NAS speakers choose from several grammatical possibilities when they ask their in- terlocutor to perform an action. The selection seems to be governed by the complex rules of politeness in the NAS communities. We summarize the grammatical possibilities and attempt to explain how the different are used to indicate different levels of poli…
El futuro sintético en el español norandino: Caso de mandato atenuado
El futuro sintético en el español norandino: Caso de mandato atenuado
Política del purismo lingüístico en el Cuzco
El artículo no presenta resumen
Impositive Speech Acts in Northern Andean Spanish: A Pragmatic Description
Northern Andean Spanish NAS possesses a complex system of structures which are used in impositive speech acts. NAS speakers choose from several grammatical possibilities when they ask their in- terlocutor to perform an action. The selection seems to be governed by the complex rules of politeness in the NAS communities. We summarize the grammatical possibilities and attempt to explain how the different are used to indicate different levels of poli…
Linguistic Purism in Cuzco, Peru: A Historical Perspective
Purismo lingüístico en Cuzco, Peru: Perspectiva histórica En Cuzco, Peru, un grupo de intelectuales mestizos afirma que Qhpaj'simi es el quechua que usaron los nobles incas hace muchos siglos y por lo tanto es la forma más pura de la lengua. Con base en esta premisa se establece una jerarquía social en la cual el uso de la "lengua imperial" es el marcador que separa a sus usuarios de la gente común, usuarios del runa simi. Puesto que las actitude…
Late-stage standardization and language ideology in the Colombian press
Article Late-stage standardization and language ideology in the Colombian press was published on June 5, 2001 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2001, issue 149)
English is like the dollar: Hard currency ideology and the status of English in Peru
This paper presents observations from an agro-pastoral village in the Andes, at the periphery of Lima and from an upper-class shopping area, and discusses attitudes toward the state-driven promotion of English. In these communities, a nearly universal ideology in Peru manifests itself in the belief that "hard currency" cultural capital in the form of English competence is needed for technological advancement, employment opportunities, national pr…
Spanish as a World Language: The Interplay of Globalized Localization and Localized Globalization
This article argues that two movements in constant interplay operate within the historical trajectory of the Spanish language: the localization that becomes globalized and the globalization that becomes localized. Equally, this article illustrates how, at the same time that Spanish is expanding in the world, new idiosyncratic and localized forms of the language are emerging. This article deals with the issues of standardization and language ideol…
Bilingualism and identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages
The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village’s Way with Writing
Linguistic Diversity and Plurality in Meso‐ and South America
This entry examines the variety and nomenclature of indigenous languages in their interaction with imperial European languages from the fifteenth century onward. Groups resisted or accommodated Europeans by learning their languages, with consequences for both European and indigenous tongues. In modernity most indigenous languages have lost speakers or perished, but some groups resist language inequality or negotiate language maintainance. Languag…
Spanish Standardization
A linguistic standard is an abstract model of a given real‐life language, proposing to define correct, pure, or genuine usages.
Political science (7 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)