Research Guides: SPAN 365: The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World (HC): Finding Books

Finding Books

Use TRIPOD to find books and other material owned by the Tri-College libraries.

Use WorldCat to find books not held by the Tri-College libraries.

In order to find books in either catalog, conduct either a relevant:

Keyword Search, e.g.:

(spanish OR español) AND ("united states" OR "Estados Unidos") [Tripod keyword (title) search]

(spanish OR español) AND ("united states" OR "Estados Unidos") AND (politic* OR policy OR diversity OR ideology) AND (language OR linguistics) [Tripod keyword (title) search]

basque AND "language policy" [Tripod keyword search]

basque AND ("language policy" OR "language rights") [WorldCat keyword search]
("language rights" OR "political of language") AND (spanish OR español) [Tripod keyword search]

(See the Search Tips tab for more information on how to construct keyword searches.)

Or Subject Search, e.g.:

Language policy [full list, Tripod]
Language policy Latin America [Tripod]
Language policy Spain [Tripod]
Spanish language Political aspects [Tripod]
Spanish language History [Tripod]
Spanish language United States [Tripod]
Spanish language Social aspects United States [WorldCat]
Language and languages Political aspects [Tripod]

(Use the Browse Books & More link to find additional subject headings.)

Tripod: Books & More
The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, journals, dissertations, films, and other material owned by the tri-college libraries. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to Magill or another library.

WorldCat
A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Borrowing Beyond the Tri-Co
Request items that are not available in Tripod through E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan. Note that E-Z Borrow is the first place to look for books not in Tripod. It usually takes just three days for E-Z Borrow books to arrive. Books not in E-Z Borrow can come from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) which may take as little as four or five days to arrive.

For journal articles not available in the three colleges, use the Article Delivery form. In around 3 days you will receive a digital copy of the requested articles in your email.

Selected Books

Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World
ISBN: 0415156556

Publication Date: 2000-08-11

This book traces the role of Spanish in the diverse societies where it is spoken from Europe to the Americas. Providing a comprehensive survey of language issues in the Spanish-speaking world, the book outlines the historical roots of the emergence of Spanish or Castilian as the dominant language, analyzes the situation of minority language groups, and traces the role of Spanish and its colonial heritage in Latin America.
A Political History of Spanish: the making of a language
ISBN: 9781107005730

Publication Date: 2013-08-29

Analyzes Spanish from specific political and historical perspectives, combining the traditional chronological organization of linguistic history and spatial categories such as Iberia, Latin America and the US, whilst simultaneously identifying the limits of these organizational principles.
Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship
ISBN: 9781783090181

Publication Date: 2013-08-15

This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood as the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. The authors use local contexts to foreground how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language backgrounds, continue to be excluded.
Sociolingüística del español: desarrollos y perspectivas en el estudio de la lengua española en contexto social
ISBN: 8437622484

Este libro es un manual universitario sobre la disciplina sociolingística, centrada en la investigación desarrollada en el mundo hispánico desde su aparicion a mediados de los años 60 hasta la actualidad.
El Español en Contacto Con Otras Lenguas
ISBN: 9781589012653

Publication Date: 2009-07-10

An historical, social, and linguistic overview of Spanish in contact with other languages in all of its major contexts -- in Spain, the United States, and Latin America. Individual chapters analyze particular contact situations: in Spain, contact with Basque, Catalan, Valencian, and Galician; in Mexico, Central, and South America, contact with Nahuatl, Maya, Quechua, Aimara, and Guarani; in the Southern Cone, contact with other principle European languages such as Portuguese, Italian, English, German, and Danish; in the United States, contact with English.