The University at Albany, State University of New York

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Fourth International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics

Keynote speaker:

The role of prescription in the progression of language change

Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa)

Invited speakers:

Variación lingüística e identidad en la España actual: Desarrollos y perspectivas de análisis

José Luis Blas Arroyo (Universitat Jaume I )

Functional constraints on variation and change

Gregory Guy (New York University)

Gender in context: Features and factors in men's and women's speech in rural Puerto Rico

Jonathan Holmquist (Temple University)

April 17-18, 2008

The University at Albany, Albany, New York

The 4th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS4) will be held at the University at Albany on April 17 and 18, 2008. Topics based on original sociolinguistic research analyzing Spanish data or data from contact situations between Spanish and other languages will be given in 20 minute presentations and in a poster session. Papers and presentations will be delivered in Spanish and English. Selected papers will be published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Organizing Committee:Lotfi Sayahi, Augusto Lorenzino, Maurice Westmoreland, and Juan Antonio Thomas

Contact: wss4@albany.edu

Sponsored by:

• The University at Albany, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
• Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities
• The University at Albany Office of the Vice Provost for International Education
• The University at Albany, College of Arts and Sciences