This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguis…
Introduction: Globalization, Cities, and the Spanish Language in Postmodernity / Andrew Lynch -- Globality and Locality. The "Glocalization" of Spanish in Asia: Spanish Language Study and Familial Use in Hong Kong / Álvaro Acosta Corte and Rocío Blasco García -- Local and Global…
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. W…
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. W…
Language diversity is an important part of the resulting new social and cultural constellations. Building on the top-quality expertise of researchers from different academic fields, this volume offers insights into the study of linguistic diversity from linguistic and education …
Globalization poses challenges to sociolinguistics. The main challenge is to come to terms with the phenomenology of sociolinguistic globalization. This phenomenology touches four domains: proper globalization effects on language, the effect of globalization on migration pattern…
Rapidly increasing migration flows contribute to the development of multiple forms of social and cultural differentiation in urban areas - or to 'super-diversity'. Language diversity is an important part of the resulting new social and cultural constellations. Although linguisti…
Globalization poses challenges to sociolinguistics. The main challenge is to come to terms with the phenomenology of sociolinguistic globalization. This phenomenology touches four domains: proper globalization effects on language, the effect of globalization on migration pattern…