EDUCATION 5115: Second Language Acquisition
Professor: Kathy Escamilla
Course description:
This course will examine the intricate web of variables that interact in the second language leaning process. These variables include linguistic, cognitive, social, cultural, and political factors. Learning a second language is as both an individual and social experience. It includes linguistic, cognitive, psychological, and emotional elements. As such, second language learning involves complex interactions between the individual and the contexts in which s/he interacts. The emphasis in the course will be on examining each of these factors in turn and then attempting to understand how they work together to foster or inhibit successful second language learning and acquisition.
LINGUISTICS 7900: Topics in Native American Languages
Professor: Andrew Cowell
(Semi-formalized Independent Study)
Time: to be arranged based on schedule of interested students
Course description:
This course will be a general survey of several key topics in the study of Native American languages, which for the purpose of this class will be the indigenous languages spoken in the US and Canada (we'll include Hawaiian in that). As a semi-formalized independent study, the burden for much of the class presentation and discussion will fall on the students: the instructor will bring expertise and guidance, but he will not prepare extensive lectures, though he will certainly be willing to provide some formal contextualization and introduction to the topics in question. We will plan to meet once a week for 2-2 1/2 hours.
The course will cover three main areas: 1) language structures; 2) ethnography of communication in Native America; 3) language maintenance, loss, endangerment and extinction and responses to it. We will spend around 5 weeks on each of the three areas.
LINGUISTICS 7900: Conversation Analysis
Professor: Barbara Fox
(Interdependent Study)
Time: to be arranged based on schedule of interested students
Course description:
For information about the course, consult Barbara Fox, Department of Linguistics
SPAN 5140/7140: Ideology and Poetic Form
Professor: Vincent Barletta
Time: Tuesday 3:30-6:00
Place: McKenna 103
Prerequisites: Critical reading ability in Spanish
Course description:
In this seminar we will analyze specific works of cuaderna vía poetry (from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries) in light of the ways in which the poetic form itself intersected with and helped to perpetuate local ideologies of power, gender, and moral action across time. Central to our discussion will be recent anthropological research in the field of language ideologies and literacy. During the first half of the course, we will focus on works of the medieval "mester de clerezía" and selected passages of the Libro de buen amor. The second half of the course will be devoted to an in-depth analysis of the Poema de Yuçuf and issues of Morisco language, literature, and culture. Final grades will be based on in-class participation, a short transcription project, and a final paper. Readings include: Milagros de Nuestra Señora, La vida de Santa Oria, Libro de Alexandre, Libro de buen amor, and the Poema de Yuçuf.
SPAN 4450/5450: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Professor: Esther L. Brown
Prerequisites: Reading and speaking ability in Spanish
Objetivos del curso:
En este curso se brinda una introducción a la lingüística hispánica y se presentan los principios de las ramas básicas de la lingüística: el sistema de sonidos (fonética y fonología), la formación de palabras (morfología) y la estructura de las frases (sintaxis). El objetivo del curso es proveer a los estudiantes conocimientos que les permitan realizar conexiones entre la estructura del español y los temas relevantes de la lingüística hispánica contemporánea, como el cambio de la lengua a través del tiempo, la variación dialectal, el español de los Estados Unidos y el bilingüismo.
Course description:
The course will be an introduction to Hispanic linguistics in which we will examine several primary branches of linguistics: the sound system (phonetics, phonology), the structure of words (morphology), and the structure of sentences (syntax). The Spanish language will be examined in the context of topics particularly relevant to Hispanic Linguistics today, such as diachronic change, grammaticization, dialect variation, Spanish in the United States, and bilingualism.
