Melvin González-Rivera
Biographic Data
| ID | 9013767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melvin González-Rivera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melvin |
| FAMILY NAME | González-Rivera |
| SIGNATURE | GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9630-7338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Language Attitudes Towards Spanish and English in Puerto Rico
This article analyzes language attitudes towards Spanish and English in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory since 1898, and seek to answer the following three questions: are Spanish and English conflicting elements in the Puerto Rican society? Is Spanish a symbol of identity for Puerto Ricans? Does bilingualism represent a threat to the ethno-sociolinguistic existence of Puerto Ricans? By examining an online questionnaire on language attitudes complete…
Nominal predication with estar
Spanish is a dual copula system — ser and estar . According to traditional interpretations of their distribution, estar does not take nominal complements. Instead, this type of complements appears with the copula ser. There are, however, some counterexamples to this rule. On the one hand, we have examples such as Pepe estuvo torero ayer ‘Pepe was like a bullfighter yesterday.’ In this example, the noun torero does not have its usual interpretatio…
Pragmatic function impairment and Alzheimer’s dementia
Pragmatic competence includes the capacity to express illocutionary force and successfully achieve perlocutionary effects, in order to guarantee fully functional communication exchanges. Alzheimer’s Disease is characterized by a constellation of limitations derived from progressive cognitive impairment, which is usually viewed as a global uniform phenomenon. In this paper it is argued that looking independently at the loss and recovery of pragmat…
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Pragmatic function impairment and Alzheimer’s dementia
Pragmatic competence includes the capacity to express illocutionary force and successfully achieve perlocutionary effects, in order to guarantee fully functional communication exchanges. Alzheimer’s Disease is characterized by a constellation of limitations derived from progressive cognitive impairment, which is usually viewed as a global uniform phenomenon. In this paper it is argued that looking independently at the loss and recovery of pragmat…
Nominal predication with estar
Spanish is a dual copula system — ser and estar . According to traditional interpretations of their distribution, estar does not take nominal complements. Instead, this type of complements appears with the copula ser. There are, however, some counterexamples to this rule. On the one hand, we have examples such as Pepe estuvo torero ayer ‘Pepe was like a bullfighter yesterday.’ In this example, the noun torero does not have its usual interpretatio…
Language Attitudes Towards Spanish and English in Puerto Rico
This article analyzes language attitudes towards Spanish and English in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory since 1898, and seek to answer the following three questions: are Spanish and English conflicting elements in the Puerto Rican society? Is Spanish a symbol of identity for Puerto Ricans? Does bilingualism represent a threat to the ethno-sociolinguistic existence of Puerto Ricans? By examining an online questionnaire on language attitudes complete…
Psychology (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Alzheimer's disease (1 work) · Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Cognitive impairment (1 work)