Cover -- The Spanish Language Today -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I Spanish as a world language -- 1 The extent and status of Spanish in the world -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 The extent of Spanish in the world -- 1.1.0 Spanish in Latin America -- 1.1.1 Spanish in Spain -- 1.1.2 Spanish as the second language in the United States -- 1.1.3 Spanish in the rest of the world -- 1.2 The status of Spanish as a world language -- 1.2.0 Economic and cultural potential -- 1.2.1 Supranational organizations -- 1.2.2 The promotion of the language -- 1.3 Conclusion -- 2 The standardization of Spanish -- 2.0 Language prescription: from the academy to the style guide -- 2.0.0 The rise and fall (and rise?) of the academies -- 2.0.1 Standardization and the media -- 2.0.2 Standardisation in public administration -- 2.0.3 Guidelines for non-sexist language use -- 2.0.4 Standardisation in science and technology -- 2.1 Language description: oral and written corpora -- 2.2 Conclusion -- PART II Spanish: variation and change -- 3 The phonetics, phonology and orthography of Spanish -- 3.0 The phonology of Spanish -- 3.1 The phonetics and phonology of Spanish: variation and change -- 3.2 Orthography -- 4 Spanish lexis -- 4.0 Lexical change -- 4.0.0 Creation of neologisms from Spanish-language stock -- 4.0.1 Creation of neologisms through borrowing -- 4.1 Lexical variation -- 4.1.0 User variation: geography -- 4.1.1 User variation: age -- 4.2 Conclusion -- 5 Spanish morpho-syntax -- 5.0 The verbal group -- 5.0.0 Impersonal verbs (haber, hacer) -- 5.0.1 The passive -- 5.0.2 Pronominal verbs -- 5.0.3 Ser/estar -- 5.0.4 Tense -- 5.0.5 Modality -- 5.0.6 Proforms and clitics -- 5.1 The noun group -- 5.1.0 The noun -- 5.1.1 The adjective -- 5.2 The clause -- 5.2.0 Queísmo/dequeísmo -- 5.2.1 Prepositions -- 5.2.2 Relative pronouns.

5.2.3 Word order -- 5.3 Conclusion -- PART III The Spanish language in use -- 6 Tú, Vd. and forms of address -- 6.0 Pronominal paradigms -- 6.0.0 Spain -- 6.0.1 Latin America -- 6.1 The use of tú and Vd. in face-to-face interaction -- 6.2 Naming -- 6.3 Illustrative texts -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7 Discourse and genre -- 7.0 Administrative Spanish -- 7.1 Legal Spanish -- 7.2 Political Spanish -- 7.3 Newspaper reporting -- 7.4 Taboo: euphemism and political correctness -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8 Conversation, pragmatics and politeness -- 8.0 Planned and unplanned discourse -- 8.1 Conversational Spanish -- 8.1.0 Adjacency pairs -- 8.1.1 Preferred and dispreferred responses -- 8.1.2 Repairs -- 8.1.3 Allocation of turns, interruption and overlap -- 8.1.4 Closures -- 8.1.5 Pre-sequences -- 8.2 Pragmatics and politeness -- 8.2.0 Directives and requests -- 8.2.1 Telephone calls -- 8.3 Conclusion -- PART IV Spanish in contact -- 9 Spanish in contact -- 9.0 Spanish-based creoles -- 9.0.0 Philippine creole Spanish (Zamboangueño), Papiamento, Palenquero -- 9.1 Contact with other languages -- 9.1.0 Spanish/Catalan -- 9.1.1 Spanish/Portuguese -- 9.1.2 Spanish/Maya (Yucateco) -- 9.1.3 Spanish/Italian -- 9.1.4 Spanish/English -- 9.2 Borrowing and code-switching -- 9.3 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected bibliography and further reading -- Other sources -- Index.