ESP 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spanish Language In The Americas, Speech Community, Language Contact

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Spanish
• Course: ESP 2302
• Professor: Elena Valenzuela

Document Summary

Lecture 2: ha(cid:373)el (cid:894)(cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1007)(cid:895): (cid:862)a(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)easi(cid:374)g i(cid:374)te(cid:396)-(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ity o(cid:374) all le(cid:448)els(cid:863, but what is this inter-connectiveness, mar-molinero (2004) argues that it has to do with power and dominance, 2 key topics in language and globalization, language use, language spread. Language contact and language spread: coupland (2003) 4 characteristics of language in relation to globalization: Interdependence: the spanish-speaking world shares media and cultural production, tv, film, music. In this way, there is a type of world spanish speech community who collectively respond to changing society with new terminology, borrowings, etc. Compression of space and time: the internet and other forms of electronic communication make geographical distance unimportant. Commodity: the popularity of spanish is being seen as a commodity (a useful or valuable thing, people are attracted to the culture (music, film, food) and want to learn the language as a consequence. In turn, spanish language learning is an increasing commodity. Language use: language for communication, language for identification.