Globalization and Language in the Spanish Speaking World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Clare Mar-Molinero, Miranda Stewart

   Pages 1-7

3. Forces of Globalization in the Spanish-Speaking World: Linguistic Imperialism or Grassroots Adaptation

   • Clare Mar-Molinero

   Pages 8-26

4. US Latinos, la hispanofonía, and the Language Ideologies of High Modernity

   • José del Valle

   Pages 27-46

5. Language Conflict and the Micro-Macro Link in the Spanish-Speaking World

   • Rainer Enrique Hamel

   Pages 47-75

6. Spanish/English Interaction in US Hispanic Heritage Learners’ Writing

   • Marta Fairclough

   Pages 76-93

7. Andean Spanish and the Spanish of Lima: Linguistic Variation and Change in a Contact Situation

   • Carol A. Klee, Rocío Caravedo

   Pages 94-113

8. Spanish as L2 on the Dominican/Haitian Border and Universal Processes of Acquisition

   • Luis A. Ortiz López

   Pages 114-136

9. Whose Story Is It Anyway? Representing Oral Testimony in a Multilingual ‘Contact Zone’

   • Jane Freeland

   Pages 137-157

10. Spanish-Speaking Latin Americans in Catalonia: Reflexivity and Knowledgeability in Constructions of Catalan

    • Steve Marshall

    Pages 158-177

11. Language Contact between Galician and Spanish: Conflict or Harmony? Young People’s Linguistic Attitudes in Contemporary Galicia

    • Bernadette O’Rourke

    Pages 178-196

12. Linguistic Shift and Community Language: The Effect of Demographic Factors in the Valencian Region, Balearic Islands and Catalonia

    • Raquel Casesnoves Ferrer, David Sankoff, M. Teresa Turell

    Pages 197-219

13. Back Matter

    Pages 220-270

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This volume considers the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the processes of globalization. Spanish is frequently dominant in contact with other languages. But how contested is its hegemony and how far does it threaten other languages? How are these other minoritized languages faring in a world of few strong, global languages?

• community
• demography
• globalization
• Hispanofonia
• Ideologie
• interaction
• literary diction

"This volume does a fine job of analyzing a wide range of sociolinguistic topics related to the global role of Spanish... Recommended." - CHOICE

• University of Southampton, UK

  Clare Mar-Molinero

• University of Strathclyde, UK

  Miranda Stewart

RAQUEL CASESNOVES FERRER is a Ramon y Cajal post-doctoral research fellow at the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain ROCÍO CARAVEDO is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and in the Graduate School of Linguistics, University of Pisa, Italy JOSÉ DEL VALLE teaches Hispanic Linguistics at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York, USA MARTA FAIRCLOUGH is Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Chair of Hispanic Studies, University of Houston, USA JANE FREELAND is Visiting Research Fellow, School of Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK RAINER ENRIQUE HAMEL is Professor of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Mexico City, Mexico CAROL A. KLEE is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota, USA STEVE MARSHALL is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada BERNADETTE O'ROURKE is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh LUIS A. ORTIZ LÓPEZ is Professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies and contributes to the Graduate Programme in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico DAVID SANKOFF is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research M. TERESA TURELL isProfessor of English Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. At present she is the director of ForensicLab, the forensic linguistics laboratory in the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA), Barcelona, Spain

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