The Battle over Spanish
between 1800 and 2000

Language ideologies and Hispanic intellectuals

Edited by
José del Valle and Luis Gabriel-Stheeman

Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

London and New York: Routledge, 2002

ISBN 0-415-25256-3

Contents (Access Preface, Chapters 1, 5, 7 and References by clicking on title*):

Preface xii

1. Nationalism, hispanismo, and monoglossic culture

 José del Valle and Luis Gabriel-Stheeman 1-13
2. Linguistic anti-academicism and Hispanic community: Sarmiento and Unamuno

Barry L. Velleman 14-41
3. The ideological construction of an empirical base: selection and elaboration in Andrés Bello's grammar

Belford Moré 42-63
4. Historical linguistics and cultural history: the polemic between Rufino José Cuervo and Juan Valera

José del Valle 64-77
5. Menéndez Pidal, national regeneration and the linguistic utopia

José del Valle 78-105
6. "For their own good": The Spanish identity and its Great Inquisitor, Miguel de Unamuno

Joan Ramon Resina 106-133
7. A nobleman grabs the broom: Ortega y Gasset's verbal hygiene

Luis Gabriel-Stheeman 134-166
8. José María Arguedas: Peruvian Spanish as subversive assimilation

John C. Landreau 167-192
9. "Codo con codo": Hispanic community and the language spectacle

José del Valle and Luis Gabriel-Stheeman 193-216

References  217-230

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