Transnational languages: beyond nation and empire? An introduction

Authors

  • José Del Valle City University of New York (CUNY) Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v5i3.387

Keywords:

language policy and planning, linguistic ideologies, linguistic nationalism, linguistic imperialism, language and globalization

Abstract

This article introduces the issue and presents the questions addressed by the contributors. Are the language policies and metalinguistic discourses that came to be associated with nationalism and imperialism still operative in the new context provided by the various phenomena associated with globalization? How and to what extent have language policies and metalinguistic discourses adjusted to the contemporary construction of the Commonwealth of Nations, la Comunidad Panhispánica, la Francophonie, and a Lusofonia?

Author Biography

  • José Del Valle, City University of New York (CUNY)
    José del Valle is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of El trueque s/x en español antiguo. Aproximaciones teóricas (Max Niemeyer, 1996) and co-editor of The Battle Over Spanish Between 1800 and 2000: Language Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals (Routledge, 2002), which studies the construction of national and pan-Hispanic identities in Spain and Latin America. In La lengua, ¿patria común? (Vervuert, 2007) del Valle and his collaborators discuss, from a language-ideological perspective, the contemporary politics of Panhispanism. In 2010 he received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is currently editing A political history of Spanish: the making of a language for Cambridge University Press.

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Published

2012-10-21

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2011): Language Beyond the Nation: A Comparative Approach to Policies and Discourses

Section

Guest Editorial

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How to Cite

Del Valle, J. (2012). Transnational languages: beyond nation and empire? An introduction. Sociolinguistic Studies, 5(3), 387-397. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v5i3.387