Download or read book Sociolinguistic Change Across the Spanish-speaking World written by Kim Potowski and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents cutting-edge research in Hispanic sociolinguistics. They include studies on language variation and change, contact varieties, language use, perception, and attitudes and focus on language varieties such as Peruvian Spanish, Mexican Spanish on the U.S. - Mexican border and in the Midwest, and two Peninsular varieties (in the Basque country and in Catalonia). This book is a Festschrift in honor of Anna María Escobar and her twenty-five years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.