This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics. Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguistics Highlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theory Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field to present the very latest perspectives and discussions of key issues Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist approaches, Spanish and its importance in the U.S., language planning, and other topics focused on the social aspects of Spanish Includes several varieties of Spanish, reflecting the rich diversity of dialects spoken in the Americas and Spain

This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overviewof theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanicsociolinguistics.* Offers the first authoritative collection exploring researchstrands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanishsociolinguistics* Highlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics hasoffered to general linguistic theory* Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field topresent the very latest perspectives and discussions of keyissues* Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist approachesSpanish and its importance in the U.S., language planning, andother topics focused on the social aspects of Spanish* Includes several varieties of Spanish, reflecting the richdiversity of dialects spoken in the Americas and Spain

List of Figures.List of Tables.Notes on Contributors.Introduction (Manuel Díaz-Campos).I Phonological Variation.1 Laboratory Approaches to Sound Variation and Change (LauraColantoni).2 Variationist Approaches: External Factors ConditioningVariation in Spanish Phonology (Antonio Medina-Rivera).3 Internal Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology(Francisco Moreno-Fernández).4 Socio-phonological Variation in Latin American Spanish (JohnM. Lipski).5 Sociophonological Variation and Change in Spain (JoséAntonio Samper Padilla).II Morphosyntactic Variation.6 Variationist Approaches to Spanish Morphosyntax: Internal andExternal Factors (Scott A. Schwenter).7 Variation and Grammaticalization (Rena Torres Cacoullos).8 Morphosyntactic Variation in Spanish-Speaking Latin America(Paola Bentivoglio and Mercedes Sedano).9 Morphosyntactic Variation in Spain (María JoséSerrano).III Language, the Individual, and the Society.10 Aging, Age, and Sociolinguistics (Richard Cameron).11 Gender and Variation: Word-final /s/ in Men's andWomen's Speech in Puerto Rico's Western Highlands(Jonathan Holmquist).12 Forms of Address: The Effect of the Context (Diane R.Uber).13 Becoming a Member of the Speech Community: LearningSocio-phonetic Variation in Child Language (ManuelDíaz-Campos).14 The Relationship between Historical Linguistics andSociolinguistics (Donald N. Tuten and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero).15 The Acquisition of Variation in Second Language Spanish: Howto Identify and Catch a Moving Target (Kimberly Geeslin).IV Spanish in Contact.16 Spanish in Contact with Quechua (Anna MaríaEscobar).17 Spanish in Contact with Guaraní (Shaw N. Gynan).18 Spanish in Contact with Catalan (José Luis BlasArroyo).19 Spanish in Contact with Portuguese: the Case of Barranquenho(J. Clancy Clements, Patrícia Amaral, and Ana R.Luís).20 Spanish in Contact with Haitian Creole (Luis A. OrtizLópez).21 Palenque (Colombia): Multilingualism in an ExtraordinarySocial and Historical Context (Armin Schwegler).22 Spanish in Contact with Arabic (Lotfi Sayahi).V Spanish in the United States, Heritage Language, L2Spanish.23 Spanish in the United States: Bilingual Discourse Markers(Lourdes Torres).24 Functional Adaptation and Conceptual Convergence in theAnalysis of Language Contact in the Spanish of BilingualCommunities in New York (Ricardo Otheguy).25 Code-switching among US Latinos (Almeida JacquelineToribio).26 Language and Social Meaning in Bilingual Mexico and theUnited States (Norma Mendoza-Denton and Bryan James Gordon).27 Intrafamilial Dialect Contact (Kim Potowski).28 Heritage Language Students: The Case of Spanish (GuadalupeValdés and Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci).29 Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos(Jorge Porcel).30 Mockery and Appropriation of Spanish in White Spaces:Perceptions of Latinos in the United States (Adam Schwartz).VI Language Policy/Planning, Language Attitudes andIdeology.31 Planning Spanish: Nationalizing, Minoritizing and GlobalizingPerformances (Ofelia García).32 Bilingual Education in Latin America (Serafín M.Coronel-Molina and Megan Solon).33 Variation and Identity in Spain (Juan ManuelHernández-Campoy).34 Variation and Identity in the Americas (MercedesNiño-Murcia).35 Linguistic Imperialism: Who Owns Global Spanish? (ClareMar-Molinero and Darren Paffey).Index.