{"product_id":"a-political-history-of-spanish-the-making-of-a-language-hardback-9781107005730","title":"A Political History of Spanish; The Making of a Language (Hardback) 9781107005730","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Political History of Spanish\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Making of a Language\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA comprehensive work which offers a new and provocative approach to Spanish from political and historical perspectives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJosé Del Valle (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107005730, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 August 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e446 pages, 2 b\/w illus.  4 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.76 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'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 Royal Academy. The coverage includes Spain, Spanish America, the United States, Africa, and Asia. This skilfully configured anthology provides a valuable complement to linguistic histories of Spanish, by documenting the socio-political currents that shaped one of the world's most prominent languages. Historians, linguists, political scientists, and students of language and culture will find relevant and thought-provoking material in these essays.' John Lipski, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSpanish 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Theoretical Underpinnings: 1. Language, politics and history: an introductory essay José del Valle\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Making of Spanish: Iberian Perspectives: 2. Introduction Alberto Medina, Henrique Monteagudo and José del Valle\u003cbr\u003e 3. The prehistory of written Spanish and the thirteenth-century nationalist zeitgeist Roger Wright\u003cbr\u003e 4. Language, nation and empire in early modern Iberia Miguel Martínez\u003cbr\u003e 5. The seventeenth-century debate over the origins of Spanish: links of language ideology to the morisco question Kathryn Woolard\u003cbr\u003e 6. The institutionalization of language in eighteenth-century Spain Alberto Medina\u003cbr\u003e 7. The officialization of Spanish in mid-nineteenth-century Spain: the Academy's authority Laura Villa\u003cbr\u003e 8. Spanish and other languages of Spain in the Second Republic Henrique Monteagudo\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Making of Spanish: Latin American and Transatlantic Perspectives: 9. Introduction Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux and José del Valle\u003cbr\u003e 10. Language, religion and unification in early colonial Peru Paul Firbas\u003cbr\u003e 11. Grammar and the state in the Southern Cone in the nineteenth century Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux\u003cbr\u003e 12. The politics of lexicography in the Mexican Academy in the late nineteenth century Bárbara Cifuentes\u003cbr\u003e 13. Language in the Dominican Republic: between Hispanism and Panamericanism Juan Valdez\u003cbr\u003e 14. Language diversity and national unity in the history of Uruguay Graciela Barrios\u003cbr\u003e 15. Language debates and the institutionalization of philology in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century Guillermo Toscano y García\u003cbr\u003e 16. Linguistic emancipation and the academies of the Spanish language in the twentieth century: the 1951 turning point José del Valle\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Making of Spanish: US Perspectives: 17. Introduction José del Valle and Ofelia García\u003cbr\u003e 18. Language, church and state in territorial Arizona Elise M. DuBord\u003cbr\u003e 19. The politics of Spanish and English in territorial New Mexico Arturo Fernández Gibert\u003cbr\u003e 20. Public health and the politics of language in early twentieth-century Texas Glenn Martínez\u003cbr\u003e 21. Categorizing Latinos in the history of the US Census: the official racialization of Spanish Jennifer Leeman\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Making of Spanish Beyond Spain and the Americas: 22. Introduction Mauro Fernández and José del Valle\u003cbr\u003e 23. The status of Judeo-Spanish in the Ottoman Empire Yvette Bürki\u003cbr\u003e 24. Language and the Hispanization of Equatorial Guinea Susana Castillo Rodríguez\u003cbr\u003e 25. The representation of Spanish in the Philippine Islands Mauro Fernández.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Historical \u0026amp; comparative linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Historical \u0026amp; comparative linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Historical%20\u0026amp;%20comparative%20linguistics%20%5BCFF%5D%22\"\u003eCFF\u003c\/a\u003e], Linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Linguistics%20%5BCF%5D%22\"\u003eCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265448169752,"sku":"9781107005730","price":83.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107005730i.jpg?v=1692022978","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-political-history-of-spanish-the-making-of-a-language-hardback-9781107005730","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}