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Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Spanish as national language -- 1 Language and nationalism -- Theories of nationalism -- Language and national identity -- Conclusion -- 2 The 'Castilianisation' process -- The origins of Spanish in the Iberian Peninsula4 -- Spanish in the Americas -- 'Español' or 'Castellano' -- Conclusion -- 3 Counter-nationalism and the other languages of the Spanish-speaking world -- The linguistic minority communities in Spain -- The Catalans -- The Basques -- The Galicians -- Conclusion -- The 'other' languages of Latin America -- Nahuatl: the legacy of the Aztec empire -- Quechua: from imperial lingua franca to endangered language -- Guarani: a national language -- Conclusion -- The triumph of Spanish -- Part II Legislation and the realities of linguisticb diversity -- 4 Language rights, language policies and Language Planning -- Linguistic rights -- Language policies -- Language Planning -- Language and power -- 5 The state and language policies in the contemporary Spanish-speaking world -- Spain: from dictatorship to the estado de las autonomías -- The denial of language rights in the Franco years -- Las lenguas españlas and the 1978 Constitution -- Language Planning in Spain's comunidades históricas -- Summary -- Latin America: invisible nations -- The linguistic rights of Latin America's indigenous minorities -- Language policies and national legislation -- Language Planning in contemporary Latin America -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Part III Language and education -- 6 Bilingual education, literacy and the role of language in education systems -- Bilingual education: assimilation or maintenance -- exclusion or empowerment? -- Bilingual education models -- The assimilationist model -- The maintenance model -- The immersion model. The submersion model -- Summary -- Education systems and the politics of literacy -- What is literacy? -- Adult literacy projects: learning to read the world -- The impact of literacy on language politics -- Conclusion -- 7 Latin American educational policies in the struggle for linguistic rights -- From bilingual to bicultural and intercultural -- Mexico -- Peru -- Bolivia -- Summary -- Enabling and empowering: radical adult literacy progammes in Latin America11 -- Cuba -- Nicaragua -- Guatemala -- Conclusion -- 8 Politics, language and the Spanish education system -- 'Igual que Franco pero al revés'? Catalan language education policies -- The legal framework for Catalan education -- The language backlash -- The 1998 Llei de Política Lingüística -- Bilingual education in the Basque autonomous community -- The demand for Basque teaching: from Ikastolas to the normalisation programme -- The current vitality of Basque language education -- Conclusion -- Part IV Language politics in the new millennium: the outlook for Spanish -- 9 Spanish as minority language -- The Latinos in the US -- The rise of Hispanophobia -- The English Only movement -- The image of the Latino:6 solidarity versus homogenisation -- The language issue and Puerto Ricans -- Puerto Rico and the US: a privileged or subordinate relationship? -- The experience of the returning migrant -- Conclusion -- 10 Spanish in a global era -- Spain and Europe -- Languages and the European Union -- Spanish and EU language policies -- Pan-continental movements in Latin America -- Conclusions: Spanish as pluricentric world language -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Spanish is now the third most widely spoken language in the world after English and Chinese. This book traces how and why Spanish has arrived at this position, examining its role in the diverse societies where it is spoken from Europe to the Americas. Providing a comprehensive survey of language issues in the Spanish-speaking world, the book outlines the historical roots of the emergence of Spanish or Castilian as the dominant language, analyzes the situation of minority language groups, and traces the role of Spanish and its colonial heritage in Latin America. The book is structured in four sections: Spanish as a national language: conflict and hegemony Legislation and the realities of linguistic diversity Language and education The future of Spanish. Throughout the book Clare Mar-Molinero asks probing questions such as: How does language relate to power? What is its link with identity? What is the role of language in nation-building? Who decides how language is taught?.