Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The structure of the book -- How to use this book -- Introductory reading -- Part One THE POSITION OF SPANISH IN THE WORLD -- 1. The origins Of Spanish: the historical context of a dominant language -- Introduction -- From Latin To Castilian -- The establishment of a 'national' language -- Language In twentieth-century Spain -- Further reading -- 2. Spanish in Latin America -- The Castilianisation of Latin America -- Paraguay -- Peru -- Spanish in twentieth-century Latin America -- Spanish as a world language -- Further reading -- 3. The other languages of Spain -- Catalan -- Basque -- Galician -- Further reading -- Part two EXPLORING LINGUISTIC VARIATION -- 4. Regional and social variations in Spanish -- Dialects in Spain -- Spanish dialects in Latin America -- The study of social dialects -- Madrid: Vallecas and chabolismo -- Further reading -- 5. Language attitudes -- Language attitudes in the Spanish-speaking world -- Further reading -- 6. Register in Spanish -- Field -- Tenor -- Mode -- Further reading -- 7. Getting the message across: Spanish in the media -- Television -- Radio -- Newspapers and the written media -- Advertising -- Further reading -- 8. Language and gender -- Gender in Spanish -- Gendered language behaviour -- Further reading -- Part Three CURRENT ISSUES: LANGUAGE AS NATIONAL IDENTITY MARKER -- 9. Language policies in post-Franco Spain -- The 1978 Spanish Constitution -- Article 3 of the post-Franco Constitution -- The other minority languages of Spain -- Spanish language policies and the European Union -- Further reading -- 10. Language Planning -- Language planning in contemporary Spain -- Catalonia.

Euskadi (the Basque Country) -- Galicia -- Evaluating language planning in Spain -- Current language planning in Latin America -- Guatemala -- Further reading -- 11. Language and education -- Bilingual education programmes -- Language education and literacy In Latin America -- Case study 1: Bolivia -- Case study 2: Catalonia -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 12. The vitality Of Spanish today -- Spanish speakers in the USA -- Puerto Rico and the language question -- Spanish in the late twentieth century -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Index of terms.