Spanglish: The Creation of an American Dialect.

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qThis course studies Spanglish from a linguistic, social, and historic perspective. Students will learn about contact between Spanish and English, particularly in the U.S. Southwest, but also in other regions, and how that contact has developed over the centuries. Students will study the linguistic phenomena that result from language contact, such as code-switching and lexical borrowings, and will be able to compare Spanglish with other situations of language contact worldwide. They will learn about the importance that Spanglish has in U.S. Hispanic society, as a marker of cultural identity, and they will examine the social factors that both promote and threaten the existence of Spanglish.