Globalization and Language in the Spanish Speaking World

RAQUEL CASESNOVES FERRER is a Ramon y Cajal post-doctoral research fellow at the Institut Universitari de Linguistica Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain ROCIO CARAVEDO is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and in the Graduate School of Linguistics, University of Pisa, Italy JOSE 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 Autonoma 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 LOPEZ 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 is Professor of English Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. At present she is the director of ForensicLab, the forensic linguistics laboratory in the Institut Universitari de Linguistica Aplicada (IULA), Barcelona, Spain

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?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?