Departments and disciplinary gatekeeping: The sociolinguistics of Spanish in US academia

• Autores: José del Valle
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 263, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Sociolinguistic Frontiers: Imagining language and society since the 1960s), págs. 45-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In his contribution, José del Valle looks at the intersection of the sociolinguistic study of Spanish in the US and the transformations of Spanish language departments in higher education. Del Valle traces the history of the institutionalization of Spanish teaching and study and its effects on linguistic research’s position within Spanish departments. Shifts in approaches to the use of language in social practice, and the growing demands on language units to act as service departments for language learners, has isolated scholars in those institutional homes from broader integration into sociolinguistic research.