Written with commendable clarity and intellectual generosity, this renewal of an already impeccable first edition offers the reader a wide-ranging view of the field with a wealth of examples, thoughtful questions, and useful research suggestions. It is an indispensable source of information and ideas for scholars and students of Spanish language and linguistics.

An inspiring must-read, this will be the textbook of choice and set the research agenda in the field for years to come. Readers are invited to join in discovering the fascinating structure of language variation across the Spanish-speaking world, grounded in the scientific method and the speech community.

Si quiere aprender sobre la sociolingüística de hoy día con un enfoque en el español, compre el libro de Silva-Corvalán y Enrique-Arias. Los autores proveen ejercicios excelentes que apoyan su presentación de elementos fundamentales tales como: el trabajo de campo y la entrevista; la dialectología y los estudios variacionistas; la variable sociolingüística y el cambio lingüístico; los factores sociales y los debates sobre el sexo/género; la clase social o la comunidad de práctica; el rol de la pragmática y otros campos de la lingüística; y los estudios de lenguas en contacto; actitudes lingüísticas; el español de los Estados Unidos y la sociolingüística aplicada. En fin, es un texto escencial y abarcador." If you want to learn about the sociolinguistics of today with a focus on Spanish, buy this book by Silva-Corvalán and Enrique-Arias. They provide excellent exercises which support their presentation of fundamental issues such as fieldwork and the interview, dialectology and variationist research, the sociolinguistic variable and language change, social factors and related debates on sex/gender, social class or the community of practice, the role of pragmatics and other linguistic sub-disciplines, and research into languages in contact, linguistic attitudes, Spanish in the US, and applied sociolinguistics. In short, this is an essential and comprehensive textbook.