02040nam a22003138a 4500 CR9780511794339 UkCbUP 20170413094207.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100705s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511794339 (ebook) 9781107005730 (hardback) 9781107533653 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PC4479.P6 P65 2013 460.9 23 A Political History of Spanish : The Making of a Language / Edited by José Del Valle. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (446 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Spanish is spoken as a first language by almost 400 million people in approximately 60 countries, and has been the subject of numerous political processes and debates since it began to spread globally from Iberia in the thirteenth century. A Political History of Spanish brings together a team of experts to analyze the metalinguistic origins of Spanish and evaluate it as a discursively constructed artefact; that is to say, as a language which contains traces of the society in which it is produced, and of the discursive traditions that are often involved and invoked in its creation. This is a comprehensive and provocative new work which takes a fresh look at Spanish from specific political and historical perspectives, combining the traditional chronological organization of linguistic history and spatial categories such as Iberia, Latin America and the US, whilst simultaneously identifying the limits of these organizational principles. Del Valle, José, editor of compilation. Print version: 9781107005730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794339 179263 179263