SPANISH, SPANGLISH & BILINGUAL LIFE IN THE U.S

Catalog description

This course looks at Spanish in the U.S. from a sociolinguistic perspective. Course topics include: Dialectal/regional differences, dialect contact, Spanish- English bilingualism and code-switching, "Spanglish", language maintenance, language ideologies surrounding Spanish in the U.S., and Spanish in public spheres (e.g., TV, movies, radio, music, stand-up comedy). (Cross-listed with SPAN 8136 ).