SPAN 143 - (CC) Spanish in Contact With Other Languages
Semester Hours:3Periodically
This course examines the ways in which the Spanish language has been influenced and transformed through contact with other languages in the Iberian Peninsula, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Students will examine the linguistic, social, political, and cultural consequences of this contact. We will also learn the most important structural and sociolinguistic theoretical concepts needed to analyze the situations of languages in contact. The course is taught in Spanish.