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

Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso coordinated an interview with an informant from San Silvestre de Guzmán, Spain. The interview discusses the informant's family history, language use, and evolving cross-border relations with Portugal. The dataset was last updated on May 5, 2024, and is hosted by the e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Analyze language shift and maintenance based on descriptions of Portuguese language use in a Spanish border community.
• Study cross-border family and community relations based on accounts of travel and marriage patterns.
• Research cultural heritage transmission based on the informant's description of her grandmother's bilingualism and community origins.

Strengths

• Provides a first-person account of cultural and linguistic history from a specific border region.
• Includes a bilingual description (Spanish and Portuguese), suggesting potential for comparative linguistic analysis.

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 is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Interview with an informant.

Time Range

Interview date is unspecified; content references historical and contemporary periods.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 05:30:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

San Silvestre de Guzmán, Spain, and the Portuguese-Spanish border region (the 'Raya').