36.2495, Books: Spanish as a Contact Language: Sanz-Sánchez (2025)

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Date: 25-Aug-2025
From: Carla Hepburn [carla.hepburn at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Spanish as a Contact Language: Sanz-Sánchez (2025)


Title: Spanish as a Contact Language
Subtitle: An Ecological History
Series Title: Edinburgh Historical Linguistics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
           http://www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
Book URL:
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spanish-as-a-contact-language.html

Author(s): Israel Sanz-Sánchez

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Abstract:

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of
individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of
their own, emerging from other languages, growing and sometimes dying.
When applied to Spanish, this story line commonly begins in spoken
Latin, with the language taking shape in medieval Spain before
spreading beyond Europe in the colonial period.
This book proposes a new take on this narrative. Instead of seeing
Spanish as a linguistic entity with linear development, what would its
history look like if we think of it as a centuries-long constellation
of contact events? A History of Spanish as a Contact Language revisits
the evolution of Spanish from the perspective of the ecology of
language, centring speakers as the only historical agents of language
transmission and change. Taking the speakers’ vantage point opens up
exciting possibilities to rethink what Spanish is, how it has changed,
and who has played a role in this process.

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Written In: English (eng)



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