Edited by Farah Ali, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed
This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical, sociocultural, and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives, this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish… read more
Gibraltar is a multilingual British territory bordering Spain that includes not only English, Spanish and Llanito, but also Arabic, owing to the sizable Moroccan population (Government of Gibraltar, 2012). Much of the existing scholarship on language in Gibraltar approaches this topic from a… read more
This chapter explores the often-overlooked influence of religious identity on language maintenance and shift in the Arabic-Spanish bilingual community in Puerto Rico. Previous research in Hispanic sociolinguistics, as compared to Arabic sociolinguistics, has rarely focused on religion as a… read more
With the presence of Catalan, Spanish, and a variety of migrant languages, multilingualism in Catalonia extends across the region and is a regular practice for native-born and migrant residents alike. This study examines language use and its relationship to identity construction among first and… read more
Norton (2000) argues that investment in L2 acquisition is also an investment in learner identity, which changes in the context of time and space – a notion that also has relevance for heritage learners. As such, the purpose of this study is to examine investment in language learning among HL… read more
