Informante 1: Oral History Interview on Portuguese-Spanish Border Language Contact

An interview conducted in Laranjeiras, Portugal, discussing historical and contemporary language use along the Portuguese-Spanish border. The dataset, harvested by e-cienciaDatos and coordinated by Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso, was last updated on May 5, 2024. The description covers topics like code-switching, cross-border schooling, and subsistence smuggling.

Use Cases

• Analyzing language shift and attitudes based on descriptions of historical Spanish word usage versus current Portuguese norms.
• Studying cross-border social and economic relations based on mentions of changing trade ('fewer deals') and subsistence contraband.
• Researching educational impacts on language based on the mention of increased schooling and children attending school in Alcoutim.
• Examining mutual intelligibility and communication patterns based on descriptions of Spanish-Portuguese conversational exchanges with Sanlúcar.

Strengths

• Provides first-hand oral history from a specific border locality (Laranjeiras).
• Description explicitly details sociolinguistic phenomena like code-switching and mutual comprehension.
• Captures specific historical changes in language use and cross-border relations.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Interview with an informant.

Time Range

Likely contemporary to the interview date, but not explicitly stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 04:19:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Laranjeiras, Portugal, with references to Alcoutim (Portugal) and Sanlúcar (Spain) across the border.