Introducción a la sociolingüística hispánica Manuel Díaz-Campos (2014), Malden and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Pp332 ISBN 978-0-470-65802-4

Author Biography

• Margarita Jara Yupanqui, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  Dr. Margarita Jara is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her master's degree and doctorate in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Jara has published articles on Spanish variation and change in peer-reviewed journals such as Spanish in Context, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, Signo & Seña, Sociolinguistic Studies, and Lexis. Her book titled “El perfecto en el español de Lima: Variación y cambio en situación de contacto lingüístico” [The Perfect in Lima’s Spanish: Variation and Change in a language contact situation] was published by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Press in 2013. It explores the alternation of past perfect form in the oral speech of Lima Spanish, examines the constraints placed on past form variation within narrative discourse due to linguistic and social factors, and analyzes the effect of Andean Spanish and bilingualism. Currently, Dr. Jara is doing research on Peruvian Amazonian Spanish.