Bastida Rodríguez, Patricia y José Igor Prieto Arranz (eds.) 2009: /On
Cultural Diversity: Britain and North America/. Palma de Mallorca:
Edicions UIB. Colección /Estudis Anglesos/. Universitat de les Illes
Balears. ISBN: 978-84-8384-112-9. 276 páginas. Precio: 25 €.
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SUMMARY:
Cultural diversity has been for years a most debated issue in
contemporary academia. The nine essays included in this volume aim to
contribute to the ongoing debate, narrowing its scope, and serving as an
introduction to the topic in the specific context of Great Britain and
English-speaking North America. The first four essays offer a
fascinating insight into key features that characterise English as
spoken in the areas noted. Each of them deals with a different
linguistic field, although they are all intimately related, and the
order in which they appear somehow evidences the productivity of the
differences between the varieties of English analysed. The remaining
essays are linked by their focus on the encounter between cultures
brought about by the experience of migration, which accounts for much of
the diversity currently found in the aforementioned areas. Thus, they
all offer critical appraisals of different, though in many respects
related, cultural phenomena and/or cultural forms -be they in the
British, Canadian or US context- in order to reveal the problematic
situation of specific social groups and related subcultures, as well as
their relation to their country's dominant discourses.
*CONTENTS*
Introduction (Patricia Bastida Rodríguez and José Igor Prieto
Arranz)........... 9
I. British and American English: a continuum of lexical and orthographic
variation (Paula López Rúa)...21
II. Comparing British and North American English pronunciation. A
sociocultural approach (José Igor Prieto Arranz)................47
III. "I've got the tickets" or "I've gotten the tickets"? Two countries
divided by a common language (Marian Amengual
Pizarro).................................................................................
83
IV. Pragmatic markers: What are they? Where do they come from? (Cristina
Suárez Gómez)........111
V. Text, sentence and word levels of colloquial English in the
non-native classroom (Roberto A. Valdeón
García)........................................139
VI. Belonging and not belonging: The writing of identity in Britain's
ethnic minorities (Patricia Bastida Rodríguez)....................161
VII. Past and present of the Anglo-Hispanic cultural conflict in the
United States (Andrés Enrique Arias)..........189
VIII. /Real Women Have Curves/? Chicana identity and bodily issues in
Patricia Cardoso's film (Marta Fernández
Morales)..........................................................................................
219
IX. Canadian multiculturalism and its literary discontents (Paloma
Fresno Calleja)....... 247
Notes on
contributors..............................................................................................
273