Includes bibliographical references and index.

Phonological Variation. Laboratory Approaches to Sound Variation and Change / Laura Colantoni -- Variationist Approaches: External Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology / Antonio Medina-Rivera -- Internal Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology / Francisco Moreno-Fernández -- Socio-Phonological Variation in Latin American Spanish / John M Lipski -- Sociophonological Variation and Change in Spain / José Antonio Samper Padilla -- Morphosyntactic Variation. Variationist Approaches to Spanish Morphosyntax: Internal and External Factors / Scott A Schwenter -- Variation and Grammaticalization / Rena Torres Cacoullos -- Morphosyntactic Variation in Spanish-Speaking Latin America / Paola Bentivoglio, Mercedes Sedano -- Morphosyntactic Variation in Spain / María José Serrano -- Language, the Individual, and the Society. Aging, Age, and Sociolinguistics / Richard Cameron -- Gender and Variation: Word-Final /s/ in Men's and Women's Speech in Puerto Rico's Western Highlands / Jonathan Holmquist -- Forms of Address: The Effect of the Context / Diane R Uber -- Becoming a Member of the Speech Community: Learning Socio-Phonetic Variation in Child Language / Manuel Díaz-campos -- The Relationship Between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics / Donald N Tuten, Fernando Tejedo-Herrero -- The Acquisition of Variation in Second Language Spanish: How to Identify and Catch a Moving Target / Kimberly Geeslin -- Spanish in Contact. Spanish in Contact with Quechua / Anna María Escobar -- Spanish in Contact with Guaran̕í / Shaw N Gynan -- Spanish in Contact with Catalan / José Luis Blas Arroyo -- Spanish in Contact with Portuguese: The Case of Barranquenho / J Clancy Clements, Patrícia Amaral, Ana R Luís -- Spanish in Contact with Haitian Creole / Luis A Ortiz López -- Palenque (Colombia): Multilingualism in an Extraordinary Social and Historical Context / Armin Schwegler -- Spanish in Contact with Arabic / Lotfi Sayahi -- Spanish in the United States, Heritage Language, L2 Spanish. Spanish in the United States: Bilingual Discourse Markers / Lourdes Torres -- Functional Adaptation and Conceptual Convergence in the Analysis of Language Contact in the Spanish of Bilingual Communities in New York / Ricardo Otheguy -- Code-Switching among US Latinos / Almeida Jacqueline Toribio -- Language and Social Meaning in Bilingual Mexico and the United States / Norma Mendoza-Denton, Bryan James Gordon -- Intrafamilial Dialect Contact / Kim Potowski -- Heritage Language Students: The Case of Spanish / Guadalupe Valdés, Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci -- Language Maintenance and Language Shift among US Latinos / Jorge Porcel -- Mockery and Appropriation of Spanish in White Spaces: Perceptions of Latinos in the United States / Adam Schwartz -- Language Policy/Planning, Language Attitudes and Ideology. Planning Spanish: Nationalizing, Minoritizing and Globalizing Performances / Ofelia García -- Bilingual Education in Latin America / Serafín M Coronel-Molina, Megan Solon -- Variation and Identity in Spain / Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy -- Variation and Identity in the Americas / Mercedes Niño-Murcia -- Linguistic Imperialism: Who Owns Global Spanish? / Clare Mar-Molinero, Darren Paffey.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics.

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