Researching the global Latin world: conducting cross-cultural qualitative research
Hal DaumResearch International (US)
LINGUISTIC OVERVIEW
Spanish is the second-most globally dispersed language, after native English. While certainly more people in total may speak, say, Mandarin or Cantonese or dialects thereof, most of these are confined to a specific geographic region of the globe: China or Taiwan. To provide some quantification here, there are some one billion speakers of the Chinese mother tongue, which surpasses the next four major world languages - English, Spanish, Hindi and Arabic - combined. Nevertheless, where there are 350 million native English-speakers in the world,...