Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Publication Title
Issues in Applied Linguistics
Abstract
The present study focuses on the use of Spanish by near-native speakers in the United States. I will consider near-native speakers to be those individuals who speak Spanish as a second language, who are capable of having a complex conversation in that language, who are able to understand any speaker, and who are able to function as professionals using Spanish in their field of work. The near-native speakers for this study consist of clergy and religious sisters from Allentown, Pennsylvania, who incorporate the use of Spanish in their ministry to the Hispanic communities in the United States within the Catholic church. The study examines the use of the indicative vs. subjunctive, the preterit vs. the imperfect, and copula verbs ser vs. estar, in relation to stylistic variables such as type of situation, topic of conversation, and type of discourse.
Version
Publisher's PDF
Publisher's Statement
Published by University of California (UCLA).
Recommended Citation
Medina-Rivera, Antonio. (2004). Mood, Tense, and Copula Verb Selection in Near-Native Speakers of Spanish. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 14(2). Retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/04c648c7
Volume
14
Issue
2
Included in
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Commons
