Rafael Orozco
Professor of Spanish and Chair
B.S.Ed., Universidad del Atl谩ntico, 1988
M.A., New York University, 1996, New York University, TESL West Chester University,
1991
Ph.D., New York University, 2004
Phone: 225-578-5179
E-mail: rorozc1@lsu.edu
Office: 315 Hodges Hall
Faculty Webpage
Area of Interest
Sociolinguistics, Colombian Spanish, Spanish in the United States, Caribbean Spanish, language contact, & multilingualism
Selected Publications
Orozco, Rafael, 2018. Spanish in Colombia and New York City: Language Contact Meets Dialectal Convergence. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
File Muriel, Richard & Orozco, Rafael (eds.). 2012. Colombian Varieties of Spanish. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuet.
Cortazar, Alejandro & Orozco, Rafael (eds.). 2011. Lenguaje, arte y revoluciones ayer y hoy: New approaches to Hispanic Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Orozco, Rafael. Forthcoming. 鈥淐astilian in New York City: What can we learn from the future?" New Perspectives on Hispanic contact linguistics in the Ameriacas, ed. by Sandro Sessarego & Melvin Gonz谩lez-Rivera.
Orozco, R. & Richard File-Muriel. 2012. 鈥淐olombian Spanish at the turn of the 21st Century.鈥� Colombian Varieties of Spanish, ed. by Richard File-Muriel & Rafael Orozco, 11-20.
Orozco, R. 2012. 鈥淭he Expression of Nominal Possession in the Spanish of Colombians in New York City.鈥� Colombian Varieties of Spanish, ed. by Richard File-Muriel & Rafael Orozco, 205-234.
Orozco, Rafael. 2010. 鈥淰ariation in the expression of nominal possession in Coste帽o Spanish.鈥� Spanish in Context, 7:2, 194-220.
Orozco, R. 2009b. 鈥淟a influencia de factores sociales en la expresi贸n del posesivo.鈥� 尝颈苍驳眉铆蝉迟颈肠补, Vol. 22, pp. 25-60.
Orozco, R. 2009a. 鈥淓l castellano del Caribe colombiano a comienzos del siglo XXI.鈥� Revista Internacional de 尝颈苍驳眉铆蝉迟颈肠补 Iberoamericana (RILI), Vol. 7, 2, pp. 95-113.
Orozco, R. & Gregory Guy. 2008. 鈥淓l uso variable de los pronombres sujetos: 驴Qu茅 pasa en la costa Caribe colombiana?鈥� Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. by M. Westmoreland & J. Thomas, 70-80. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.
Orozco, R. 2007b. 鈥淪ocial Constraints on the Expression of Futurity in Spanish-Speaking Urban Communities.鈥� Selected Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. by J. Holmquist, A. Lorenzino & L. Sayahi, 103-112. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.
Orozco, R. 2007a. 鈥淭he Impact of Linguistic Constraints on the Expression of Futurity in the Spanish of New York Colombians.鈥� Spanish in Contact: Educational, social, and linguistic inquiries, ed. by Richard Cameron and Kim Potowski, 311-328. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
Orozco, R. 2005. 鈥淒istribution of Future Time Forms in Northern Colombian Spanish.鈥� Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by David Eddington, 56-65. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.