Spanish and Portuguese across Time, Place, and Borders

Part I. Linguistics and Literature: Translation, Society, and Language Variation

1. “Ah jist likes, dinnae ken how ye do it.” Translating the Literary Dialect of Trainspotting into Spanish
Ricardo Muñoz Martín

2. Queer Geographies: Federico García Lorca’s “Oda a Walt Whitman” in English Translation
Anna E. Hiller

3. Pedro Muñoz Seca (1881–1936): The Comic Effect of the Grotesque
Rakhel Villamil-Acera

4. The Predicaments of Transculturation: A Materialist Reading of “Meu tio o Iauaretê” by João Guimarães Rosa
Alfredo Cesar Melo

5. Discourse and Ideology—Why Do We Need Both?
Simo K. Määttä

6. Representation of Charrúa Speech in Nineteenth-Century Uruguayan Literature
Magdalena Coll

7. The Dialect of Vargas Llosa’s Storyteller
Sonia Montes Romanillos

8. Orality in Literature: Cuban-American Spanish in La vida es un special 1.50. 75 by Roberto G. Fernández
Martha Mendoza

Part II. Language Change, Language Contact, and Language Users

9. The Ideology of Standardization in Early Modern Castile: The Unknown Oservaciones de la lengua castellana and the Attack on castellanos viejos
Vicente Lledó-Guillem

10. Geographic and Sociolinguistic Variables in the Seseo of Murcia
Juan A. Sempere Martínez

11. Morphological Simplification in Latin American Spanish: The Demise of -se and the Triumph of -ra in the Past Subjunctive in Colonial New Spain
Israel Sanz-Sánchez

12. Linguistic Continuity along the Uruguayan-Brazilian Border: Monolingual Perceptions of a Bilingual Reality
Ana M. Carvalho

13. Portuguese for L1 English-L2 Spanish Speakers: The Effectiveness of “Tá Falado” Podcast Lessons
Orlando R. Kelm

14. Face Work in Spanish Language Service Encounters between Native and Nonnative Speakers in the United States
Laura Callahan

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation, Romance Languages, Translation Studies