The Spanish Language Today

by Stewart; Miranda

ISBN13: 9780415142588

ISBN10: 041514258X

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 1999-07-20

Publisher(s): Routledge

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Summary

The Spanish Language Todaydescribes the varied and changing Spanish language at the end of the twentieth century. As conflicting forces work towards the unification and fragmentation of both Peninsular and Latin American Spanish, this book examines where Spanish is spoken on a global scale as well as the status of Spanish within the realms of politics, education and media, with particular reference to the English-only movement in the US. The book also examines the standardization of Spanish and the specific areas of linguistic variation and change, including the effects of language contact on Spanish which is spoken widely in contexts of bi- and multilingualism. Supported throughout by extracts from contemporary press and literary sources,The Spanish Language Todayprovides a comprehensive overview of the varieties of the Spanish language today and is essential for students of the modern Spanish language.

Author Biography

Miranda Stewart is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Strathclyde.

Preface

(4)

Acknowledgements

PART I Spanish as a world language

(40)

1 The extent and status of Spanish in the world

(11)

1.0 Introduction

(1)

1.1 The extent of Spanish in the world

(7)

1.1.0 Spanish in Latin America

(2)

1.1.1 Spanish in Spain

(1)

1.1.2 Spanish as the second language in the United States

(1)

1.1.3 Spanish in the rest of the world

(3)

1.2 The status of Spanish as a world language

(3)

1.2.0 Economic and cultural potential

(1)

1.2.1 Supranational organizations

(1)

1.2.2 The promotion of the language

(1)

1.3 Conclusion

(1)

2 The standardization of Spanish

(27)

2.0 Language prescription: from the academy to the style guide

(20)

2.0.0 The rise and fall (and rise?) of the academies

(5)

2.0.1 Standardization and the media

(7)

2.0.2 Standardization in public administration

(3)

2.0.3 Guidelines for non-sexist language use

(4)

2.0.4 Standardization in science and technology

(1)

2.1 Language description: oral and written corpora

(3)

2.2 Conclusion

(2)

PART II Spanish: variation and change

(78)

3 The phonology, phonetics and orthography of Spanish

(18)

3.0 The phonology of Spanish

(1)

3.1 The phonetics and phonology of Spanish: variation and change

(9)

3.2 Orthography

(7)

4 Spanish lexis

(35)

4.0 Lexical change

(27)

4.0.0 Creation of neologisms from Spanish-language stock

(20)

4.0.1 Creation of neologisms through borrowing

(6)

4.1 Lexical variation

(7)

4.1.0 User variation: geography

(1)

4.1.1 User variation: age

(5)

4.2 Conclusion

(1)

5 Spanish morpho-syntax

(23)

5.0 The verbal group

(15)

5.0.0 Impersonal verbs (haber, hacer)

(1)

5.0.1 The passive

(1)

5.0.2 Pronominal verbs

(1)

5.0.3 Ser/estar

(1)

5.0.4 Tense

(2)

5.0.5 Modality

101

(4)

5.0.6 Proforms and clitics

105

(6)

5.1 The noun group

111

(2)

5.1.0 The noun

111

(1)

5.1.1 The adjective

112

(1)

5.2 The clause

113

(4)

5.2.0 Queismo/dequeismo

113

(1)

5.2.1 Prepositions

114

(1)

5.2.2 Relative pronouns

115

(1)

5.2.3 Word order

115

(2)

5.3 Conclusion

117

(2)

PART III The Spanish language in use

119

(60)

6 Tu, Vd. and forms of address

121

(14)

6.0 Pronominal paradigms

122

(4)

6.0.0 Spain

122

(1)

6.0.1 Latin America

122

(4)

6.1 The use of tu and Vd. in face-to-face interaction

126

(3)

6.2 Naming

129

(3)

6.3 Illustrative texts

132

(2)

6.4 Conclusion

134

(1)

7 Discourse and genre

135

(26)

7.0 Administrative Spanish

135

(5)

7.1 Legal Spanish

140

(4)

7.2 Political Spanish

144

(6)

7.3 Newspaper reporting

150

(5)

7.4 Taboo: euphemism and political correctness

155

(5)

7.5 Conclusion

160

(1)

8 Conversation, pragmatics and politeness

161

(18)

8.0 Planned and unplanned discourse

161

(3)

8.1 Conversational Spanish

164

(5)

8.1.0 Adjacency pairs

165

(1)

8.1.1 Preferred and dispreferred responses

165

(1)

8.1.2 Repairs

166

(1)

8.1.3 Allocation of turns, interruption and overlap

167

(1)

8.1.4 Closures

167

(1)

8.1.5 Pre-sequences

168

(1)

8.2 Pragmatics and politeness

169

(8)

8.2.0 Directives and requests

171

(5)

8.2.1 Telephone calls

176

(1)

8.3 Conclusion

177

(2)

PART IV Spanish in contact

179

(20)

9 Spanish in contact

181

(18)

9.0 Spanish-based creoles

182

(3)

9.0.0 Philippine creole Spanish (Zamboangueno), Papiamento Palenquero

183

(2)

9.1 Contact with other languages

185

(8)

9.1.0 Spanish/Catalan

185

(1)

9.1.1 Spanish/Portuguese

186

(1)

9.1.2 Spanish/Maya (Yucateca)

187

(1)

9.1.3 Spanish/Italian

188

(2)

9.1.4 Spanish/English

190

(3)

9.2 Borrowing and code-switching

193

(4)

9.3 Conclusion

197

(2)

Conclusion

199

(2)

Notes

201

(13)

Glossary

214

(6)

Selected bibliography and further reading

220

(9)

Other sources

228

(1)

Index

229

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