English and Spanish

World Languages in Interaction

Danae Perez, Marianne Hundt, Johannes Kabatek, Daniel Schreier

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781108486040
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108660112
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction: English and Spanish in Contact - World Languages in Interaction
• 2 The Emergence of Global Languages: Why English?
• 3 Some (Unintended) Consequences of Colonization: The Rise of Spanish as a Global Language
• 4 Dialect Contact and the Emergence of New Varieties of English
• 5 The Emergence of Latin American Spanish
• 6 Creole Distinctiveness?: Insights from English-Lexifier Pidgins, Creoles, and Related Varieties
• 7 Contact Scenarios and Varieties of Spanish beyond Europe
• 8 Pluricentricity and Codification in World English
• 9 Spanish Today: Pluricentricity and Codification
• 10 Uncovering the Big Picture: Measuring the Typological Relatedness of Varieties of English
• 11 Morphosyntactic Variation in Spanish: Global and American Perspectives
• 12 English and Spanish in Contact in North America: US Latino Communities and the Emergence of Transnational Mediascapes
• 13 'The Spanish of the Internet': Is That a Thing?: Discursive and Morphosyntactic Innovations in Computer Mediated Communication
• 14 Alternating or Mixing Languages?
• 15 The Persistence of Dialectal Differences in U.S. Spanish: /s/ Deletion in Boston and New York City
• 16 Identity Construction
• Index