| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages) : illustrations |
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Language and globalization |
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Language and globalization
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| Contents |
Forces of globalization in the Spanish-speaking world : linguistic imperialism or grassroots adaptation / Clare Mar-Molinero -- US Latinos, la hispanofonía and the language ideologies of high modernity / José del Valle -- Language conflict and the micro-macro link in the Spanish-speaking world / Rainer Enrique Hamel -- Spanish/English interaction in US hispanic heritage learners' writing / Marta Fairclough -- Andean Spanish and the Spanish of Lima : linguistic variation and change in a contact situation / Carol A. Klee and Rocío Caravedo -- Spanish as L2 on the Dominican/Haitian border and universal processes of acquisition / Luis A. Ortiz López -- Whose story is it anyway? : representing oral testimony in a multilingual 'contact zone' / Jane Freeland -- Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Catalonia : reflexivity and knowledgeability in constructions of Catalan / Steve Marshall -- Language contact between Galician and Spanish : conflict or harmony? young people's linguistic attitudes in contemporary Galicia / Bernadette O'Rourke -- Linguistic shift and community language : the effect of demographic factors in the Valencian Region, Balearic Islands and Catalonia / Raquel Casesnoves Ferrer, David Sankoff and M. Teresa Turell |
| Summary |
This volume considers, at global and at local levels, the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the face of processes of globalization. Spanish is frequently the dominant language in this contact situation. But how contested is its hegemony; and how far does contact with it threaten other languages? How are these other, weaker, minoritized languages prospering in a world where a few strong, global languages may be taking over their linguistic domains? Generally the view to emerge is that Spanish is a dominant, hegemonic language whose speakers are increasing steadily and whose value, symbolic and actual, is being exploited and promoted by certain agents of language spread. However, there is also the question of how homogenous this profile of Spanish is, given the porosity of the boundaries which surround it, and indeed, how contested is its hegemony? What is the precise nature of its influence and dominance? |
| Analysis |
Hispanic linguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-242) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and culture.
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Spanish language.
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Globalization.
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globalism.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Spanish.
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Globalization
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Language and culture
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Spanish language
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mar-Molinero, Clare, 1948-
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Stewart, Miranda, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9780230504110 |
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0230504116 |
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9780230245969 |
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023024596X |
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