ABSTRACT
This chapter presents several of the key social and economic characteristics indicative of geocultural globalization that make New York a global city par excellence, including (1) increased mobility of human populations, (2) concomitant diversity in population, and, as Sassen identifies as indicative of the global city, (3) dense networks of inter-urban commercial and communicative interaction, linking it closely to other international urban centers. It also presents morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse patterns that characterize Spanish in the city. The chapter offers an overview of common investigative interests that have defined the literature on Spanish in New York in past decades and point to emergent areas of interest. It explores the data on the use of a particular conversational pattern, the use of recasting, which appears to be a strategy that Spanish speakers use to respond to forces of globalization, particularly hyperdiversity, in their environment.
