Spanish as a Contact Language

An Ecological History

AvIsrael Sanz-Sánchez

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerging from other languages, growing and sometimes dying. When applied to Spanish, this story line commonly begins in spoken Latin, with the language taking shape in medieval Spain before spreading beyond Europe in the colonial period.This book proposes a new take on this narrative. Instead of seeing Spanish as a linguistic entity with linear development, what would its history look like if we think of it as a centuries-long constellation of contact events? A History of Spanish as a Contact Language revisits the evolution of Spanish from the perspective of the ecology of language, centring speakers as the only historical agents of language transmission and change. Taking the speakers' vantage point opens up exciting possibilities to rethink what Spanish is, how it has changed, and who has played a role in this process.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Historical Linguistics
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474429092

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Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker

Mer om författaren

Israel Sanz-Sánchez is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at West Chester University

Recensioner i media

Spanish as a Contact Language brings an original perspective by placing explanatory emphasis on the notions of idiolect, cognitive capabilities, and communication between speakers as the source of all forms of language change. As the author notes, he has written this book with a broad audience in mind, from advanced college students with at least some background in linguistics to specialists in the field. These would include not only experts in historical linguistics, dialectal variation, and language contact, but also those interested in the study of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, language typology, and multilingualism.

Innehållsförteckning

Maps, figures and tablesAbbreviationsPreface1. Spanish as Myth, Spanish as Contact2. The ubiquity of Contact: Towards an Ecological Approach to Language Change3. Spanish Before Spain: Ancient, Roman Era and Medieval Contacts4. Spanish Beyond Spain: Contact Ecologies in the Colonial Era5. Spanish in the Post-colonial World: New Nations, New Citizens, New Contacts6. Recent Contacts: New Language Ecologies in a Transnational World7. Towards New Ecological Narratives in Language Histories