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As the first book-length comparison of the history and current status of English and Spanish, this volume reveals parallels and differences in how colonialism, politics, and demographic and social change played out in the evolution of two major world languages. Essential reading for researchers in sociolinguistics and contact linguistics.
List of contents
1. English and Spanish context - world languages in interaction Danae Perez, Marianne Hundt, Johannes Kabatek and Daniel Schreier; 2. The emergence of global languages: why English? Edgar W. Schneider; 3. Some (unintended) consequences of colonization: the rise of Spanish as a global language J. Clancy Clements; 4. Dialect contact and the emergence of new varieties of English Raymond Hickey; 5. The emergence of Latin American Spanish Volker Noll; 6. Language contact in the emergence of new varieties: typological studies of English-lexifer pidgins and creoles Stephanie Hackert; 7. Contact scenarios and varieties of Spanish beyond Europe Danae M. Perez; 8. Pluricentricity and codification in world English Pam Peters; 9. Spanish today: pluricentricity and codification Bernhard Pöll; 10. Uncovering the big picture: measuring the typological relatedness of varieties of English Benedikt Szmrecsanyi; 11. Morphosyntactic variation in Spanish - global and American perspectives Eeva Sippola; 12. English and Spanish in contact in North America: US Latino communities and the emergence of transnational mediascapes Christian Mair; 13. 'The Spanish of the internet': is that a thing? Discursive and morphosyntactic innovations in computer mediated communication Carlota de Benito Moreno; 14. Alternating or mixing languages? Rena Torres Cacoullos and Catherine E. Travis; 15. The persistence of dialectal differences in US Spanish:/s/ deletion in Boston and New York City Daniel Erker and Madeline Reffel; 16. Identity construction John E. Joseph.
About the author
Danae Perez is lecturer and researcher at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Her research centers around the sociolinguistic and typological evolution of postcolonial varieties with a particular focus on the contacts of Spanish and English in the Americas.Marianne Hundt is professor of English Linguistics at Zurich University. With a strong background in corpus linguistics, she has published widely on topics in world Englishes research, English historical linguistics and construction grammar. She is co-editor of English World-Wide.Johannes Kabatek is Professor in Ibero-Romance linguistics at Zurich University. His research focuses on Ibero-Romance languages, language contact, medieval Spanish; Galician, Catalan; Brazilian Portuguese; historical linguistics; spoken and written language.Daniel Schreier is professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich. He was visiting scholar in Canterbury, North Carolina, and Regensburg and has published and edited several books on world Englishes, English dialectology, and the sociolinguistics of English, and he is former co-editor of English World-Wide.
Summary
As the first book-length comparison of the history and current status of English and Spanish, this volume reveals parallels and differences in how colonialism, politics, and demographic and social change played out in the evolution of two major world languages. Essential reading for researchers in sociolinguistics and contact linguistics.
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'The authors present a three-dimensional map of the reality of Spanish and English, as well as their contacts, beyond ideological biases. The volume addresses key concepts for interpreting the contemporary language landscape: polycentrism, postcolonialism, codification, variation, globalization. It is a Kaleidoscopic approach to an intriguing language panorama.' Francisco Moreno-Fernández, Heidelberg University and Universidad de Alcalá
