Book: Latin American Spanish language policy and politics

[Scott McGinnis]

THE BATTLE OVER SPANISH: Language Ideologies and Hispanic
Intellectuals
José Del Valle, Fordham University, and Luis Gabriel-Stheeman
A fascinating examination of how a group of key Spanish and
Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries discussed the concept of Spanish language and
how these discussions related to the formation of national
identities and Hispanic culture. Routledge Studies in the
History of Linguistics series.

December 2001: 256 pp
Hb:0415252563: $95.00 £60.00

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Biographical Notes
1. Nationalism, Hispanismo, and Monoglossic Culture, Luis
Gabriel-Stheeman and José del Valle
2. Linguistic Anti-Academicism and Hispanic Community:
Sarmiento and Unamuno, Barry Velleman
3. The Ideological Construction of an Empirical Base:
Selection and Elaboration in Andres Bello's Grammar:
Ideological Underpinnings, Belford More
4. Historical Linguistics and Cultural History: The Polemic
between Rufino José Cuervo and Juan Valera, José de Valle
5. Menéndez Pidal, National Regeneration and the Linguistic
Utopia, José del Valle
6. "For Their Own Good": The Spanish Identity and Its Great
Inquisitor, Miguel de Unamuno, Joan Ramon Resina
7. A Nobelman Grabs the Broom: Ortega y Gasset's Verbal
Hygiene, Luis Gabriel-Stheeman
8. Jose Maria Arguedas: Peruvian Spanish as Subversive
Assimilation, John C. Landreau
9. "Codo con Codo": Hispanic Community and the Language Spectacle,
Luis Gabriel-Stheeman and José del Valle
Works Cited