Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 805 p. — ISBN 9781405195003, 9781444393446.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics. Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguistics Highlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theory Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field to present the very latest perspectives and discussions of key issues Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist approaches, Spanish and its importance in the U.S., language planning, and other topics focused on the social aspects of Spanish Includes several varieties of Spanish, reflecting the rich diversity of dialects spoken in the Americas and Spain
Laboratory Approaches to Sound Variation and Change: Laura Colantoni
Variationist Approaches: External Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology: Antonio Medina-Rivera
Internal Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology: Francisco Moreno-Fernandez
Socio-Phonological Variation in Latin American Spanish: John M. Lipski
Sociophonological Variation and Change in Spain: Jose Antonio Samper Padilla
Variationist Approaches to Spanish Morphosyntax: Internal and External Factors: Scott A. Schwenter
Variation and Grammaticalization: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Morphosyntactic Variation in Spanish-Speaking Latin America: Paola Bentivoglio and Mercedes Sedano
Morphosyntactic Variation in Spain: Maria Jose Serrano
Aging, Age, and Sociolinguistics: Richard Cameron
Gender and Variation: Word-Final /s/ in Men's and Women's Speech in Puerto Rico's Western Highlands: Jonathan Holmquist
Forms of Address: The Effect of the Context: Diane R. Uber
Becoming a Member of the Speech Community: Learning Socio-Phonetic Variation in Child Language: Manuel Diaz-Campos
The Relationship Between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: Donald N. Tuten and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero
The Acquisition of Variation in Second Language Spanish: How to Identify and Catch a Moving Target: Kimberly Geeslin
Spanish in Contact with Quechua: Anna Maria Escobar
Spanish in Contact with Guarani: Shaw N. Gynan
Spanish in Contact with Catalan: Jose Luis Blas Arroyo
Spanish in Contact with Portuguese: The Case of Barranquenho: J. Clancy Clements, Patricia Amaral and Ana R. Luis
Spanish in Contact with Haitian Creole: Luis A. Ortiz Lopez
Palenque (Colombia): Multilingualism in an Extraordinary Social and Historical Context1: Armin Schwegler
Spanish in Contact with Arabic: Lotfi Sayahi
Spanish in the United States: Bilingual Discourse Markers: Lourdes Torres
Functional Adaptation and Conceptual Convergence in the Analysis of Language Contact in the Spanish of Bilingual Communities in New York: Ricardo Otheguy
Code-Switching among US Latinos: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Language and Social Meaning in Bilingual Mexico and the United States: Norma Mendoza-Denton and Bryan James Gordon
Intrafamilial Dialect Contact1: Kim Potowski
Heritage Language Students: The Case of Spanish: Guadalupe Valdes and Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci
Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos: Jorge Porcel
Mockery and Appropriation of Spanish in White Spaces: Perceptions of Latinos in the United States1: Adam Schwartz
Planning Spanish: Nationalizing, Minoritizing and Globalizing Performances: Ofelia Garcia
Bilingual Education in Latin America: Serafin M. Coronel-Molina and Megan Solon
Variation and Identity in Spain: Juan Manuel Hernandez-Campoy
Variation and Identity in the Americas: Mercedes Nino-Murcia
Linguistic Imperialism: Who Owns Global Spanish?: Clare Mar-Molinero and Darren Paffey