Date: 20-Nov-2006 From: Palgrave Macmillan <palgravemacmillanpalgrave.com> Subject: Globalization and Language in the Spanish Speaking World: Mar-Molinero, Stewart
Title: Globalization and Language in the Spanish Speaking World
Subtitle: Macro and Micro Perspectives
Series Title: Language and Globalization
Published: 2006
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Author: Clare Mar-Molinero
Author: Miranda Stewart
Hardback: ISBN: 0230000185 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 50.00
Abstract:
This volume considers, at global and at local levels, the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the face of processes of globalization. Spanish is frequently the dominant language in this contact situation. But how contested is its hegemony; and how far does contact with it threaten other languages? How are these other, weaker, minoritized languages prospering in a world where a few strong, global languages may be taking over their linguistic domains?