Synchronic approaches to Spanish.
[ROM1533]
[15h] 3 credits
This course is taught in the 1st semester.
Teacher(s): Maria Isabel Gomez Diez
Language: S
Level: First
Aims
- be familiar with the explanations given to the selected phenomena from different theories and models of language and with their conceptual framework.
- have developed a descriptive perspective about contents previously introduced in his/her curriculum from a normative point of view
- be able to apply the research method of corpus linguistics to Spanish texts
- be able to read specialized articles in linguistics in Spanish and articles contained in Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
In order to arouse the descriptive perspective on the language in the students, this course will deal with different aspects of the phonetics, morphology, syntax and lexicology subject to variation in the Spanish speaking world. The topics are:
1. The concept of variation. The dialectology, the sociolinguistics and their methods.
2. Theories about the origin of the Spanish varieties in America.
3. Dialectal areas of the Spanish in America ?
4. The phonological and phonetical system of Modern Spanish.
5. Phonetic variation in the Spanish speaking world.
6. Morpho syntactic variation in the Spanish speaking world.
7. Lexical variation in the Spanish speaking world.
Methods
Theoretical courses alternated with exercises of phonetic transcription, analysis of (oral and written) texts, recognition of different variants of Spanish and oral presentation by students.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
To be able to enroll this course, the student should have passed: Fondements de l'espagnol moderne I (FLTR 1740), Fondements de l'espagnol moderne II (ROM 1741) et Introduction à l'analyse linguistique et liitéraire de corpus en espagnol (ROM 1743.
Material :
PowerPoint presentations available on i-campus.
Recommended readings :
Quesada Pacheco M.A. (2000) El español de América. Cartago: Editorial tecnológica de Costa Rica.
Saralegui C. (2004) El español americano: teoría y textos (2 ed). Pamplona: Eunsa.
Vaquero de Ramírez M. (1996) El español de América I: pronunciacion: Madrid: Arco Libros.
Vaquero de Ramírez M. (1996) El español de América II: morfosintaxis. Madrid: Arco Libros.
Assessment :
- Written exam.
- Oral presentations (in couple) in class during the semester.