Globalization and Language in the Spanish Speaking World

RAQUEL CASESNOVES FERRER Visiting Scholar at the Institut Universitari de Linguistica Aplicada of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain ROCAiO CARAVEDO Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and in the Graduate School of Linguistics at the University of Pisa, Italy JOSAe DEL VALLE Teaches Hispanic Linguistics at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York, USA MARTA FAIRCLOUGH Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of Heritage Language Education at the University of Houston, USA JANE FREELAND Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK RAINER ENRIQUE HAMEL Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico CAROL A. KLEE Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA STEVE MARSHALL Lecturer in the Centre for Writing-Intensive Learning at Simon Fraser University, Canada BERNADETTE O'ROURKE Lecturer in the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland LUIS A. ORTIZ LA"PEZ Professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies and contributes to the Graduate Programme in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico DAVID SANKOFF Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research M. TERESA TURELL Director of the Institut Universitari de Linguistica Aplicada (IULA) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 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?