By Miranda Stewart
* the place Spanish is spoken on an international scale
* the prestige of Spanish in the nation-states of politics, schooling and media
* the standardisation of Spanish
* particular components of linguistic edition and change
* how different languages and dialects spoken within the comparable components impact the Spanish language
* no matter if new applied sciences are a chance or a danger to the Spanish language.
The Spanish Language Today includes various extracts from modern press and literary resources, a thesaurus of technical phrases and chosen translations.
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