Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English

This collection bridges disciplinary scholarship from critical language studies, Latinx critical communication, and media studies scholarship for a comprehensive exploration of Spanish-English bilingualism in the US and in turn, elucidating, more broadly, our understanding of bilingualism in a post-digital society.

Chapters offer a state-of-the-art on research at the intersection of language, communication, and media, with a focus on key debates in Spanish-English bilingualism research. The volume provides a truly interdisciplinary perspective, synthesizing a wide range of approaches to promote greater dialogue between these fields and examining different communicative bilingual spaces. These include ideological spaces, political spaces, publicity and advertising spaces, digital and social media spaces, entertainment and TV spaces, and school and family spaces.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in bilingualism, language and communication, language and media, and Latin American and Chicano/a studies.

Ana Sánchez-Muñoz is Professor in Chicana/o Studies and in Linguistics/TESL at California State University, Northridge. She does research on sociolinguistics, bilingualism, heritage languages, and situations of language contact. Sánchez-Muñoz has done extensive work on Spanish as a heritage language, examining how Spanish is developed, used, and maintained in the U.S.

Jessica Retis is the Director of the School of Journalism and the Bilingual Journalism Program, and CUES Distinguished Fellow at the University of Arizona. Her areas of research include Latin America, international migration, diasporas, and transnational communities; cultural industries; ethnic media; diversity and the media; Latino media in Europe, North America, and Asia, bilingual journalism, journalism studies, and journalism education.