Donnerstag, 19.06.2025 bis Samstag, 21.06.2025
Espacios comunicativos de México – The Communicative Spaces of Mexico
9:00 - 17:00 Uhr
04K100/04M100, Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck
Anmeldung ist erforderlich; Anmeldung beim Veranstalter bis 12.06.25
Eintritt / Kosten: €60,-
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With over 130 million inhabitants, Mexico is home to by far the largest number of Spanish speakers in the world and has a large number speakers of Amerindian languages - excluding speakers of Mexican languages in migration situations. Mexico City alone is home to over 20 million speakers, making it the largest Spanish-speaking metropolis in the world. Various relevant studies have already shown that this demographic force is accompanied by diverse linguistic variations. In addition, the high number of Spanish speakers is linked to various linguistic and cultural peculiarities of the communicative spaces of Mexico, through language contact between Spanish and numerous Amerindian languages, above all Nahuatl, Mayan or Zapotec, or through the geographical proximity to the USA and the associated direct language border with globally dominant US English. Other languages and/or linguistic varieties of Spanish - especially from Central America - also reach Mexico due to migration, particularly in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, and together with the multilingual contexts mentioned above, they make up Mexico's superdiversity. The international workshop “Los espacios comunicativos de México: Contactos de idiomas, multilingüismo y variaciones lingüísticas / Communicative Spaces of Mexico: Language Contacts, Multilingualism, and Linguistic Variations” is addressed to researchers who would like to participate in developing the state of the art of current and/or historical linguistic phenomena in connection with Spanish and other (e.g., Indigenous) languages in the communicative space of Mexico - which is not only thought of in terms of nation states, but also transnationally.
Veranstalter
Institut für Romanistik, Universität Innsbruck
Jannis Harjus
+43 512 507 42040
Workshopmexico2025@uibk.ac.at