The Spanish language today / Miranda Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Miranda, 1954-

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish language.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

Spanish

Summary:

The Spanish Language Today describes the varied and changing Spanish language at the end of the twentieth century. Suitable for introductory level upward, this book examines:* where Spanish is spoken on a global scale* the status of Spanish within the realms of politics, education and media* the standardisation of Spanish* specific areas of linguistic variation and change* how other languages and dialects spoken in the same areas affect the Spanish language* whether new technologies are an opportunity or a threat to the Spanish language.The Spanish Language Today contains numerous extracts

Contents:

""Cover""; ""The Spanish Language Today""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""PART I Spanish as a world language""; ""1 The extent and status of Spanish in the world""; ""1.0 Introduction ""; ""1.1 The extent of Spanish in the world ""; ""1.1.0 Spanish in Latin America""; ""1.1.1 Spanish in Spain""; ""1.1.2 Spanish as the second language in the United States""; ""1.1.3 Spanish in the rest of the world""; ""1.2 The status of Spanish as a world language""; ""1.2.0 Economic and cultural potential""; ""1.2.1 Supranational organizations""

""1.2.2 The promotion of the language""""1.3 Conclusion""; ""2 The standardization of Spanish""; ""2.0 Language prescription: from the academy to the style guide""; ""2.0.0 The rise and fall (and rise?) of the academies""; ""2.0.1 Standardization and the media""; ""2.0.2 Standardisation in public administration""; ""2.0.3 Guidelines for non-sexist language use""; ""2.0.4 Standardisation in science and technology""; ""2.1 Language description: oral and written corpora""; ""2.2 Conclusion""; ""PART II Spanish: variation and change""; ""3 The phonetics, phonology and orthography of Spanish""

""3.0 The phonology of Spanish""""3.1 The phonetics and phonology of Spanish: variation and change""; ""3.2 Orthography""; ""4 Spanish lexis""; ""4.0 Lexical change""; ""4.0.0 Creation of neologisms from Spanish-language stock""; ""4.0.1 Creation of neologisms through borrowing""; ""4.1 Lexical variation""; ""4.1.0 User variation: geography""; ""4.1.1 User variation: age""; ""4.2 Conclusion""; ""5 Spanish morpho-syntax""; ""5.0 The verbal group""; ""5.0.0 Impersonal verbs (haber, hacer)""; ""5.0.1 The passive""; ""5.0.2 Pronominal verbs""; ""5.0.3 Ser/estar""; ""5.0.4 Tense""

""5.0.5 Modality""""5.0.6 Proforms and clitics""; ""5.1 The noun group""; ""5.1.0 The noun""; ""5.1.1 The adjective""; ""5.2 The clause""; ""5.2.0 Que ;smo/deque;smo""; ""5.2.1 Prepositions""; ""5.2.2 Relative pronouns""; ""5.2.3 Word order""; ""5.3 Conclusion""; ""PART III The Spanish language in use""; ""6 TÃBA;, Vd. and forms of address""; ""6.0 Pronominal paradigms""; ""6.0.0 Spain""; ""6.0.1 Latin America""; ""6.1 The use of t; and Vd. in face-to-face interaction""; ""6.2 Naming""; ""6.3 Illustrative texts""; ""6.4 Conclusion""; ""7 Discourse and genre""; ""7.0 Administrative Spanish""

""7.1 Legal Spanish""""7.2 Political Spanish""; ""7.3 Newspaper reporting""; ""7.4 Taboo: euphemism and political correctness""; ""7.5 Conclusion""; ""8 Conversation, pragmatics and politeness""; ""8.0 Planned and unplanned discourse""; ""8.1 Conversational Spanish""; ""8.1.0 Adjacency pairs""; ""8.1.1 Preferred and dispreferred responses""; ""8.1.2 Repairs""; ""8.1.3 Allocation of turns, interruption and overlap""; ""8.1.4 Closures""; ""8.1.5 Pre-sequences""; ""8.2 Pragmatics and politeness""; ""8.2.0 Directives and requests""; ""8.2.1 Telephone calls""; ""8.3 Conclusion""

""PART IV Spanish in contact""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-228) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-76548-7

1-134-76549-5

1-280-33014-7

0-203-06120-9

9780203061206

OCLC:

814344714