Spanish in Social Context

SPAN

72900

Spanish in Social Context

The course introduces students to the study of language in its social context, to the analysis of socially conditioned linguistic variation, and to the application of these types of analyses to the facts of Spanish in its social context. It covers the ways in which language relates to social categories such as ethnicity, age, class, gender, politeness, and speech situation; it examines the notion of the sociolinguistic variable and its application to Spanish; and it surveys the major studies of social variation and embedding in Spanish-speaking contexts.

Offer as needed

Graduate School Graduate

No

030874