This Spanish dialectology course explorers the linguistic and social markers that give rise to the numerous varieties of Spanish spoken across the world. We will explore the relationship between language, individual and society in the context of the spread of Spanish across the world, concentrating on Spanish varieties spoken in Spain and Latin America, including the United States, but will also give an overview of Spanish in Africa (Equatorial Guinea, Morocco), and other parts of the world (Israel, Turkey, the Philippines). Students will synthesize information regarding how the Spanish language varies across the globe, understand the fundamentals of language variation, critically think about the historical and contemporary process of linguistic marginalization, and collect, code, and analyze quantitative linguistic variation data.
Tuesdays and Thursdays (11:00am - 12:20pm, Location TBD).
CRN is 52365 and the prerequisite is SPAN 252.
Instructor: Salvatore Callesano
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