Language Ideologies and the Globalization of 'Standard' Spanish

by Darren Paffey

Book Overview

This book examines how language ideologies are manifested in newspaper media. Using the Spanish press as a case study it considers how media discourse both from and about the Real Academia Espa ola constitutes a set of 'language ideological debates' in which the institution represents a vision of what the Spanish language is and what it should be like.

Paffey adopts a Critical Discourse Analysis approach to a large corpus of texts from Spain's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472522575
• ISBN13: 9781472522573
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"