02057nam a22003018a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002500224082001400249245011600263264005200379300005900431336002600490337002600516338003600542500007300578520095100651700004701602776003501649856007101684CR9780511794339UkCbUP20180107143412.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||100705s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511794339 (ebook)  z9781107005730 (hardback)  z9781107533653 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aPC4479.P6 bP65 201300a460.922302aA Political History of Spanish :bThe Making of a Language / [electronic resource]cEdited by José Del Valle. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (446 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aSpanish 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.1 aDel Valle, José,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z978110700573040uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794339zCambridge Books Online