xxii, 793 p. : 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Phonological variation. 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-Fernández -- Socio-phonological variation in Latin American Spanish / John M. Lipski -- Sociophonological variation and change in Spain / José Antonio Samper Padilla -- Morphosyntactic variation. 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 Bentivolgio and Mercedes Sedano -- Morphosyntactic variation in Spain / María José Serrano -- Language, the individual, and the society. 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 Díaz-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. Spanish in contact with Quechua / Anna María Escobar -- Spanish in contact with Guaraní / Shaw N. Gynan -- Spanish in contact with Catalan / José Luis Blas Arroyo -- Spanish in contact with Portuguese: the case of Barranquenho / J. Clancy Clements, Patrícia Amaral, and Ana R. Luís -- Spanish in contact with Haitian Creole / Luis A. Ortiz López --

Palenque (Columbia): multilingualism in and extraordinary social and historical context / Armin Schwegler -- Spanish in contact with Arabic / Lotfi Sayahi -- Spanish in the United States, heritage language, L2 Spanish. Spanish in the United States: bilingual discourse martkers / 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 contact / Kim Potowski -- Heritage language students: the case of Spanish / Guadalupe Valdés 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 States / Adam Schwartz --

Language policy/planning, language attittudes and ideology. Planning Spanish: nationalizing, minoritizing and globalizing performances / Ofelia García -- Bilingual education in Latin America / Serafín M. Coronel-Molina and Megan Solon -- Variation and identity in Spain / Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy -- Variation and identity in the Americas / Mercedes Niño-Murcia -- Linguistic imperialism: who owns global Spanish? / Clare Mar-Molinero and Darren Paffey

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