ABSTRACT
Sociolinguistic research has, in recent years, responded to the fact that over half of the global population now live in urban areas, asking what this means for the status and development of language varieties and the linguistic repertoires of speakers. In this chapter, I draw on various core concepts such as superdiversity and linguistic landscape (henceforth LL) studies to consider what happens when a global language such as Spanish becomes a supposedly invisible variety within the dynamic global city of London.
