Linguistic Imperialism: Who Owns Global Spanish?

The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 747-764

  Mar Molinero, Clare ^a   Paffey, Darren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"linguistic imperialism" in a groundbreaking book by robert phillipson, the idea of languages dominating, or imposed; Concept with wider phenomenon of language in a global era, its current attitudes; Demand for spanish encouraging many to learn it, for instrumental and communicative purposes; Globalization, linguistic imperialism and spanish language, and spanish as a global language; Growing demands for spanish; Linguistic imperialism who owns global spanish; Linguistic imperialism, producing ongoing discussion and analysis significant contributions; Spain's panhispanic language policy; Spanish, product or commodity enhanced by global media and communications, language itself affected by global phenomena; Spread of spanish, global "interdependence" of spanish speaking communities to one another, impact on language itself

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885534714     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444393446.ch35     Document Type: Chapter

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