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A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language
Edited By Jos Del
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Description for A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language
Paperback. A comprehensive work which offers a new and provocative approach to Spanish from political and historical perspectives. Editor(s): Del Valle, Jose. Num Pages: 446 pages, 2 b/w illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 642.
Spanish is spoken as a first language by almost 400 million people in approximately 60 countries, and has been the subject of numerous political processes and debates since it began to spread globally from Iberia in the thirteenth century. A Political History of Spanish brings together a team of experts to analyze the metalinguistic origins of Spanish and evaluate it as a discursively constructed artefact; that is to say, as a language which contains traces of the society in which it is produced, and of the discursive traditions that are often involved and invoked in its creation. This is a ... Read more
Spanish is spoken as a first language by almost 400 million people in approximately 60 countries, and has been the subject of numerous political processes and debates since it began to spread globally from Iberia in the thirteenth century. A Political History of Spanish brings together a team of experts to analyze the metalinguistic origins of Spanish and evaluate it as a discursively constructed artefact; that is to say, as a language which contains traces of the society in which it is produced, and of the discursive traditions that are often involved and invoked in its creation. This is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
446
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107533653
SKU
V9781107533653
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About Edited By Jos Del
José del Valle is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of El trueque s/x en español antiguo: Aproximaciones teóricas (1996) and co-editor and co-author of The Battle Over Spanish Between 1800 and 2000: Language Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals (2002) and La lengua, ¿patria común? (2007). In 2010 ... Read more
Reviews for A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language
'With more than 400 million speakers spread over every continent, the Spanish language represents a powerful social and political force in the modern world. A political history of Spanish traces the development of Spanish from a rustic regional vernacular to a multi-center world powerhouse, including the rise of Castilian as the variety of choice and the institutional control of the ... Read more