The article traces the spread of Spanish across the globe, highlighting the changing nature of this spread, from indicator of local dominance to colonisation, and then, today, globalisation. This article focuses on the role of Spanish in an era of globalisation, raising issues about the nature of a world or global language, and noting how the emergence of such languages mirrors the decrease of a wider linguistic diversity. It seeks to answer such questions as whether Spanish can be called a global language or instead only an international one. It suggests various tests that should be applied in order to consider what constitutes a global language. I will conclude by speculating on the future spread and role of Spanish, particularly in the U.S. and in its interaction with English.
2008. The Pan-Hispanic Community and the Conceptual Structure of Linguistic Nationalism. International Multilingual Research Journal 2:1-2 ► pp. 5 ff.
Demuro, Eugenia & Laura Gurney
2018. Mapping language, culture, ideology: rethinking language in foreign language instruction. Language and Intercultural Communication 18:3 ► pp. 287 ff.
García, Ofelia
2008. Spanish and Globalization: Shedding Its Armor and Baring Its Undulating Rhythms. International Multilingual Research Journal 2:1-2 ► pp. 1 ff.
Gurney, Laura & Eugenia Demuro
2022. Tracing new ground, from language to languaging, and from languaging to assemblages: rethinking languaging through the multilingual and ontological turns. International Journal of Multilingualism 19:3 ► pp. 305 ff.
2007. From neglect to re-discovery: Language and identity amongst Spanish migrants in the United Kingdom.
International Journal of Iberian Studies
19:3 ► pp. 205 ff.
Mar-Molinero, Clare
2008. Subverting Cervantes: Language Authority in Global Spanish. International Multilingual Research Journal 2:1-2 ► pp. 27 ff.
Mar‐Molinero, Clare
2010. The Spread of Global Spanish: From Cervantes toreggaetón. In The Handbook of Language and Globalization, ► pp. 162 ff.
Mar‐Molinero, Clare & Darren Paffey
2011. Linguistic Imperialism: Who Owns Global Spanish?. In The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics, ► pp. 747 ff.
Paffey, Darren
2007. Policing the Spanish language debate: verbal hygiene and the Spanish language academy (Real Academia Española). Language Policy 6:3-4 ► pp. 313 ff.
Valdés, Guadalupe, Luis Poza & Maneka Deanna Brooks
2015. Language Acquisition in Bilingual Education. In The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education, ► pp. 56 ff.
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