A political history of Spanish : the making of a language /
edited by Jose del Valle.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 430 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Language, politics and history : an introductory essay / Introduction to the making of Spanish : Iberian perspectives / The prehistory of written Spanish and the thirteenth-century nationalist zeitgeist / Language, nation and empire in early modern Iberia / The seventeenth century debate over the origins of Spanish : links of language ideology to the Morisco question / The institutionalization of language in eighteenth-century Spain / The officialization of Spanish in mid-nineteenth century Spain : the Academy's authority / Spanish and other languages of Spain in the Second Republic / Introduction to the making of Spanish : Latin American and Transatlantic perspectives / Language, religion and unification in early colonial Peru / Grammar and the state in the Southern Cone in the nineteenth century / The politics of lexicography in the Mexican Academy in the late nineteenth century / Language in the Dominican Republic : between Hispanism and Panamericanism / Language diversity and national unity in the history of Uruguay / Language debates and the institutionalization of philology in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century / Linguistic emancipation and the academies of the Spanish language in the twentieth century : the 1951 turning point / Introduction to the making of Spanish : US perspectives / Language, church and state in territorial Arizona / The politics of Spanish and English in territorial New Mexico / Public health and the politics of Spanish in early twentieth-century Texas / Categorizing Latinos in the history of the US Census : the official racialization of Spanish / Introduction to the making of Spanish beyond Spain and the Americas / The status of Judeo-Spanish in the Ottoman Empire / Language and the hispanization of Equatorial Guinea / The representation of Spanish in the Philippine Islands / José del Valle -- Alberto Medina, José del Valle and Henrique Monteagudo -- Roger Wright -- Miguel Martínez -- Kathryn A. Woolard -- Alberto Medina -- Laura Villa -- Henrique Monteagudo -- Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux and José del Valle -- Paul Firbas -- Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux -- Bárbara Cifuentes -- Juan R. Valdez -- Graciela Barrios -- Guillermo Toscano y García -- José del Valle -- José del Valle and Ofelia García -- Elise M. DuBord -- Arturo Fernández-Gibert -- Glenn A. Martinez -- Jennifer Leeman -- Mauro Fernández and José del Valle -- Yvette Bürki -- Susana Castillo Rodríguez -- Mauro Fernández. Part I. Theoretical underpinnings. Part II. The making of Spanish: Iberian perspectives. Part III. The making of Spanish: Latin American and Transatlantic perspectives. Part IV. The making of Spanish: US perspectives. Part V. The making of Spanish beyond Spain and the Americas.
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 comprehensive and provocative new work which takes a fresh look at Spanish from specific political and historical perspectives, combining the traditional chronological organization of linguistic history and spatial categories such as Iberia, Latin America and the US, whilst simultaneously identifying the limits of these organizational principles.
9780511794339 (ebook)
Spanish language--Political aspects--History. Communication in politics--History.
Spanish-speaking countries--Politics and government.