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.
This volume compares the evolution and current status of two of the world's major languages, English and Spanish. Parallel chapters trace the emergence of Global English and Spanish and their current status, covering aspects such as language and dialect contact, language typology, norm development in pluricentric languages, and identity construction. Case studies look into the use of English and Spanish on the internet, investigate mixed and alternating lects, as well as ongoing change in Spanish-speaking minorities in the US. The volume thus contributes to current theoretical debates and provides fresh empirical data. While offering an in-depth treatment of the evolution of English and Spanish to the reader, this book introduces the driving factors and the effects of the emergence of world languages in general and is relevant for researchers and students of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and typology alike.
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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-Fernįndez, Heidelberg University and Universidad de Alcalį ' linguists interested in these languages, their development, and their intersections will find it valuable.' Jean Danic, LINGUIST List
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Taking a comparative and language-contact approach, this book traces the rise of two world languages, English and Spanish.
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.
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.
