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Apr 25, 2024
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SPAN 4438 - Hispanic Dialectology and Sociolinguistics
Overview of major dialects of the Hispanic world and exploration of the sources of dialectal variation, e.g. age-based, gender-related and sociocultural, among others. Readings, lectures, class presentations, and discussions.
Requisites: SPAN 3460
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Conduct original research focused either on primary language data, or on already existing data.
- Connect dialectology to practices such as teaching pronunciation, bilingual education, translation, or interpretation.
- Read scientific articles in the field, summarize and critique the main ideas.
- Trace the history of the Spanish language, and pre-Hispanic languages in Europe, North, Central and South America.
- Understand how phonetic principles apply to different dialects within the vast Spanish-speaking world.
- Understand of the socio-cultural implications of Spanish as a world language. apply the standard Spanish phonetic system to transcribe the different Spanish dialects.
- The successful student will be able to: Understand the phonetic system of the Spanish language, recognize the sounds and correctly produce them.
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