INTRODUCTION TO HISPANIC LINGUISTICS

Catalog description

(Slashed with SPAN 48900 ) This course introduces students to the major areas and subareas of theoretical and applied linguistics with examples taken from varieties of the Spanish language. Students will learn how linguists describe and analyze the features and patterns of the Spanish language both in the abstract and within social, discursive contexts. Students will learn about the predominant methods for gathering and analyzing Spanish language data in the various fields and subfields of Hispanic linguistics.