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more information - www.cambridge.org/9781107005730 APoliticalHistoryofSpanish TheMakingofaLanguage Spanishisspokenasafirstlanguagebyalmost400millionpeopleinapprox- imately sixty countries, and has been the subject of numerous political processes and debates since it began to spread globally from Iberia in the fifteenth century. A Political History of Spanish brings together a team of expertstoanalyzethemetalinguisticoriginsofSpanishandevaluateitasa discursivelyconstructedartifact–thatistosay,asalanguagewhichcontains tracesofthesocietyinwhichitisproduced,andofthediscursivetraditions thatareofteninvolvedandinvokedinitscreation. This is a comprehensive and provocative new work which takes a fresh lookatSpanishfromspecificpoliticalandhistoricalperspectives,combining the traditional chronological organization of linguistic history and spatial categoriessuchasIberia,LatinAmerica,andtheUS,whilstsimultaneously identifyingthelimitsoftheseorganizationalprinciples. jose´ delvalleisProfessorofHispanicLinguisticsattheGraduateCenter ofTheCityUniversityofNewYork.In2010hereceivedtheFriedrichWilhelm BesselResearchAwardfromtheAlexandervonHumboldtFoundationforhis outstandingresearchrecord. A Political History of Spanish The Making of a Language Editedby Jose´ delValle UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107005730 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintingintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd.PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata ApoliticalhistoryofSpanish:themakingofalanguage/EditedbyJosedelValle. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-00573-0(hardback) 1.Spanishlanguage–Politicalaspects–History. 2.Communicationinpolitics– History. 3.Politicsandgovernment–Spanish-speakingcountries. I.Valle,Jose´ deleditorofcompilation. PC4479.P6P65 2013 460.9–dc23 2013016879 ISBN978-1-107-00573-0Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. EmblemoftheTongueandSword Dosarmassonlalenguayelespada Quesilasgobernamoscualconviene Andanuestrapersonabienguardada Ymilprovechossubuenusotiene. Perocualquieradeellasdesmandada Comodelacorduraseenagene Enellocoysandiocausamuerte Yenelcuerdoysagaztruecalasuerte “Theswordandthetonguearetwoweapons that,ifwehandlethemasweshould, willensureoursecurity andbringusgreatadvantage. But,ifeitherescapesourcontrol, asifrobbedofallgoodsense, itwillbringdeathtolunaticsandfools andillfortunetothewiseandsane.” Contents Listofcontributors pagex Listoffiguresandtables xii Acknowledgements xiii PartI Theoreticalunderpinnings 1 Language,politicsandhistory:anintroductoryessay 3 jose´ del valle PartII ThemakingofSpanish:Iberianperspectives 2 IntroductiontothemakingofSpanish:Iberianperspectives 23 alberto medina, jose´ del valle and henrique monteagudo 3 TheprehistoryofwrittenSpanishandthethirteenth-century nationalistzeitgeist 31 roger wright 4 Language,nationandempireinearlymodernIberia 44 miguel mart´ınez 5 Theseventeenth-centurydebateovertheoriginsofSpanish: linksoflanguageideologytotheMoriscoquestion 61 kathryn a. woolard 6 Theinstitutionalizationoflanguageineighteenth-century Spain 77 alberto medina 7 TheofficializationofSpanishinmid-nineteenth-century Spain:theAcademy’sauthority 93 laura villa vii viii Contents 8 SpanishandotherlanguagesofSpainintheSecondRepublic 106 henrique monteagudo PartIII ThemakingofSpanish:LatinAmericanand Transatlanticperspectives 9 IntroductiontothemakingofSpanish:LatinAmericanand Transatlanticperspectives 125 elvira narvaja de arnoux and jose´ del valle 10 Language,religionandunificationinearlycolonialPeru 135 paul firbas 11 GrammarandthestateintheSouthernConeinthe nineteenthcentury 152 elvira narvaja de arnoux 12 ThepoliticsoflexicographyintheMexicanAcademyinthe latenineteenthcentury 167 ba´rbara cifuentes 13 LanguageintheDominicanRepublic:betweenHispanism andPanamericanism 182 juan r. valdez 14 Languagediversityandnationalunityinthe historyofUruguay 197 graciela barrios 15 Languagedebatesandtheinstitutionalizationofphilologyin Argentinainthefirsthalfofthetwentiethcentury 212 guillermo toscano y garc´ıa 16 LinguisticemancipationandtheacademiesoftheSpanish languageinthetwentiethcentury:the1951turningpoint 229 jose´ del valle PartIV ThemakingofSpanish:USperspectives 17 IntroductiontothemakingofSpanish:USperspectives 249 jose´ del valle and ofelia garc´ıa 18 Language,churchandstateinterritorialArizona 260 elise m. dubord
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