ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City brings together contributions from an international team of scholars of language in society to offer a conceptual and empirical perspective on Spanish within the context of 15 major cosmopolitan cities from around the world.

With a unique focus on Spanish as an international language, each chapter questions the traditional and modern notions of language, place, and identity in the urban context of globalization.

This collection of new perspectives on the sociology of Spanish provides an insightful and invaluable resource for students and researchers seeking to explore lesser-known areas of sociolinguistic research.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

Globalization, cities, and the Spanish language in postmodernity

part I|1 pages

Globality and locality

chapter 1|26 pages

The “glocalization” of Spanish in Asia

Spanish language study and familial use in Hong Kong

chapter 4|29 pages

Making global processes local

Conversational recasting in New York City 1

part II|1 pages

Space and orders of indexicality

chapter 5|31 pages

The city in mind

Metalinguistic constructions of urban space in Buenos Aires

chapter 8|35 pages

Building the Megalopolis

Dialectal leveling and language contact in Mexico City

part III|1 pages

Identity

chapter 11|25 pages

Advancing a sociolinguistics of complexity

Spanish-speaking identities in Washington, DC

part IV|1 pages

Negotiation of language resources

chapter 12|30 pages

Down the sociolinguistic rabbit hole

The complexities and contradictions of Spanish in Barcelona

chapter 15|18 pages

Spanish in-motion in Milan

chapter |8 pages

Afterword

Spanish in the City