Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Prerequisites: HISP-S 326 or consent of the department.

This undergraduate course introduces the basic concepts in sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics focuses on the symbolic value of language as an expression of group identity based on region, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, or other ways of defining group affiliation. Notions such as speech community, sociolinguistic variable, phonological and syntactic variation, and field methods, will be included. The course also surveys other related topics such as language in contact, bilingualism and Spanish in the U.S., Spanish as heritage language, language attitudes and language identity particularly in the U.S., language and the law, language and age, and language and gender. We will focus on research examining the use of Spanish in Latin America and Spain as well as in the U.S. Class time will be divided in lectures, discussion, and analysis of problem-solving cases. The evaluation will be based on participation, homework activities, experimental activities, and exams. 

HISP-S 429     #29780    12:45P-2:00P     TR      GY 4069   Prof. Manuel Diaz-Campos

Note: This class meets with HISP-S 498 (30971)

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