English and Spanish : world languages in interaction /

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 developm...

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Other Authors: Perez, Danae (Editor), Hundt, Marianne (Editor), Kabatek, Johannes (Editor), Schreier, Daniel, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • English and Spanish in contact : world languages in interaction / Danae Perez, Marianne Hundt, Johannes Kabatek, and Daniel Schreier
  • The emergence of global languages : why English? / Edgar W. Schneider
  • Some (unintended) consequences of colonization : the rise of Spanish as a global language / J. Clancy Clements
  • Dialect contact and the emergence of new varieties of English / Raymond Hickey
  • The emergence of Latin American Spanish / Volker Noll
  • Language contact in the emergence of new varieties : typological studies of English-lexifier pidgins and creoles / Stephanie Hackert
  • Contact scenarios and varieties of Spanish beyond Europe / Danae M. Perez
  • Pluricentricity and codification in world English / Pam Peters
  • Spanish today : pluricentricity and codification / Bernhard Pöll
  • Uncovering the big picture : measuring the typological relatedness of varieties of English / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
  • Morphosyntactic variation in Spanish : global and American perspectives / Eeva Sippola
  • English and Spanish in contact in North America : US Latino communities and the emergence of transnational mediascapes / Christian Mair
  • "The Spanish of the internet" : is that a thing? Discursive and morphosyntactic innovations in computer mediated communication / Carlota de Benito Moreno
  • Alternating or mixing languages? / Rena Torres Cacoullos & Catherine E. Travis
  • The persistence of dialectal differences in U.S. Spanish : /s/ deletion in Boston and New York City / Daniel Erker & Madeline Reffel
  • Identity construction / John E. Joseph.