The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World: From Colonization to Globalization

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Part I  Spanish as national language......Page 15
Theories of nationalism......Page 16
Language and national identity......Page 20
Conclusion......Page 29
2  The ‘Castilianisation’ process......Page 31
The origins of Spanish in the Iberian Peninsula4......Page 32
Spanish in the Americas......Page 40
‘Español’ or ‘Castellano’......Page 47
Conclusion......Page 50
3  Counter-nationalism and the other languages of the Spanish-speaking world......Page 52
The linguistic minority communities in Spain......Page 53
The Catalans......Page 54
The Basques......Page 59
The Galicians......Page 63
Conclusion......Page 64
The ‘other’ languages of Latin America......Page 65
Nahuatl: the legacy of the Aztec empire......Page 67
Quechua: from imperial lingua franca to endangered language......Page 69
Guarani: a national language......Page 71
Conclusion......Page 73
The triumph of Spanish......Page 74
Part II  Legislation and the realities of linguisticb diversity......Page 75
Linguistic rights......Page 76
Language policies......Page 82
Language Planning......Page 86
Language and power......Page 90
The denial of language rights in the Franco years......Page 92
Las lenguas españlas and the 1978 Constitution......Page 95
Language Planning in Spain’s comunidades históricas......Page 101
The linguistic rights of Latin America’s indigenous minorities......Page 105
Language policies and national legislation......Page 110
Language Planning in contemporary Latin America......Page 112
Conclusion......Page 116
Part III  Language and education......Page 118
6  Bilingual education, literacy and the role of language in education systems......Page 119
Bilingual education: assimilation or maintenance; exclusion or empowerment?......Page 120
Bilingual education models......Page 121
The assimilationist model......Page 122
The immersion model......Page 124
The submersion model......Page 125
Education systems and the politics of literacy......Page 126
What is literacy?......Page 127
Adult literacy projects: learning to read the world......Page 129
The impact of literacy on language politics......Page 134
Conclusion......Page 135
7  Latin American educational policies in the struggle for linguistic rights......Page 137
Mexico......Page 140
Peru......Page 144
Bolivia......Page 148
Summary......Page 150
Enabling and empowering: radical adult literacy progammes in Latin America11......Page 151
Cuba......Page 152
Nicaragua......Page 155
Guatemala......Page 159
Conclusion......Page 162
8  Politics, language and the Spanish education system......Page 163
‘Igual que Franco pero al revés’? Catalan language education policies......Page 164
The legal framework for Catalan education......Page 165
The language backlash......Page 169
The 1998 Llei de Política Lingüística......Page 171
Bilingual education in the Basque autonomous community......Page 174
The demand for Basque teaching: from Ikastolas to the normalisation programme......Page 175
The current vitality of Basque language education......Page 177
Conclusion......Page 179
Part IV  Language politics in the new millennium: the outlook for Spanish......Page 180
9  Spanish as minority language......Page 181
The Latinos in the US......Page 182
The rise of Hispanophobia......Page 183
The English Only movement......Page 185
The image of the Latino:6 solidarity versus homogenisation......Page 188
Puerto Rico and the US: a privileged or subordinate relationship?......Page 190
The experience of the returning migrant......Page 193
Conclusion......Page 195
10  Spanish in a global era......Page 196
Spain and Europe......Page 199
Languages and the European Union......Page 200
Spanish and EU language policies......Page 202
Pan-continental movements in Latin America......Page 203
Conclusions: Spanish as pluricentric world language......Page 207
Notes......Page 211
Bibliography......Page 224
Index......Page 238