SPAN 706 - Hispanic Socio-linguistics and Dialectology

This course is intended to familiarize students with the study of Spanish dialects based on historical and geographic criteria, as well as to introduce sociolinguistic concepts and issues. Sociolinguistic topics may include social and stylistic variation, language variation and change, dialects and the "standard norm," linguistic attitudes, language and gender, bilingualism, language contact, language attitudes, discourse analysis, etc.