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In:Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time
Edited by Jeremy King and Sandro Sessarego
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 340] 2018
► pp. 11–34

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Chapter 1
Spatial reconfigurations of Spanish in postmodernity

The relationship to English and minoritized languages

Published online: 13 March 2018
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Abstract
In this chapter, I propose four principal ways in which the Spanish language is being spatially reconfigured vis-à-vis English and local minoritized languages in postmodernity: (1) the ideological relocation of Spanish in the global ‘marketplace’ economy; (2) the propagation of English-influenced discursive patterns within the context of late capitalism, e.g., preference for familiar forms of pronominal address (tuteo) in commerce; (3) the incursion of English in public life and education, placing traditionally minoritized languages in sharper relief in the linguistic landscape; and (4) the normativization and normalization of Spanish in cyberspace and in global mass media, where English is hegemonic. I suggest that these ideological phenomena will condition structural and discursive variations in Spanish in the years ahead.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The relocation of Spanish in postmodernity: From nation to market
  • 3.The discursive effects of late capitalism: tuteo
  • 4.The incursion of English and the rearticulation of space for minoritized languages
  • 5.The normalization of Spanish in cyberspace and global mass media
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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