ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the mediascapes which provide special insight into the territorialization of global linguistic phenomena and their perception, as linguistic repertoires travel across scales in the mass media. Language usage as constructed and (re)produced in the media offers a window into how global cities such as Miami become key articulators of global processes. The expansion of Miami as a global business center is principally owed to its geographic proximity and cultural connections to Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as its tax policies. Media became a top industry in Miami with the immigration boom of recent decades, to the extent that the city has been dubbed the “Hollywood of Latin America.” Miami is arguably the most bilingual city of the Hispanic world, yet it has been the focus of very few sociolinguistic studies, either from sociological, linguistic, anthropological, or educational perspectives.
