Recontextualización sociolingüística y superdiversidad. El árabe en el paisaje lingüístico del barrio de Lavapiés en Madrid


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Abstract – The aim of this article is to analyze the process of sociolinguistic recontextualization of Arabic as diasporic language in the linguistic landscape in Lavapiés neighborhood in Madrid. The sociolinguistic recontextualization will be analyzed in the article from three axes. First, I will describe the regime and patterns of language use in the linguistic landscape (LL). Secondly, I will examine the interests that exist behind the visibility of Arabic as a minority language and the function(s) that its relocation in the LL develops, in a zone not only of contact with Spanish as a hegemonic language, but also within multilingualism and superdiversity. By function, I refer to the linguistic-communicative, socio-identity and ethnic place-making (Scollon, Scollon 2003) of Arabic in a sociolinguistic regime and a dynamic and multilingual LL. Finally, I will analyze how space is restructuring, in spite of the existence of power relationships linked to the rules of use and construction of space. I will find out if there are phenomena such as spatial marking and new referential functions of the reproduction of space through its resemiotization and the relocation of Arabic as a minority and diasporic language.

DOI Code: 10.1285/i22390359v25p197

Keywords: Linguistic Landscape; Arabic language; diaspora; supersiversity; sociolinguistic regime

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