Globalization and Language in the Spanish Speaking World

CLARE MAR-MOLINERO is Reader in Spanish and Head of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, UK. She teaches and has published widely on language policies and on global Spanish. Her publications include The Politics of Language in the Spanish-speaking World (2000), The Spanish-Speaking World: Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues (1997), Nationalism and the Nation in the Iberian Peninsula (co-edited with Angel Smith, 1996) and Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices: Language and the Future of Europe (co-edited with Patrick Stevenson, 2005). She is ch

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; C.Mar-Molinero & M.Stewart Forces of Globalization in the Spanish-Speaking World: Linguistic Imperialism or Grassroots Adaptation; C.Mar-Molinero US Latinos, la Hispanofonia , and the Language Ideologies of High Modernity; J.del Valle Language Conflict and the Micro-Macro Link in the Spanish-Speaking World; R.Enrique Hamel Spanish/English Interaction in US Hispanic Heritage Learners' Writing; M.Fairclough Andean Spanish and the Spanish of Lima: Linguistic Variation and Change in a Contact Situation; C.A.Klee & R.Caravedo Spanish as L2 on the Dominican/Haitian Border and Universal Processes of Acquisition; L.A.Ortiz López Whose Story is it Anyway? Representing Oral Testimony in a Multilingual 'Contact Zone'; J.Freeland Spanish-Speaking Latin Americans in Catalonia: Reflexivity and Knowledgeability in Constructions of Catalan; S.Marshall Language Contact Between Galician and Spanish - Conflict or Harmony? Young People's Linguistic Attitudes to Contemporary Galicia; B.O'Rourke Linguistic Shift and Community Language: The Effect of Demographic Factors in the Valencian Region, Balearic Islands and Catalonia; R.Casesnoves Ferrer, D.Sankoff & M.Teresa Turell References Index

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