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Jan 21, 2025
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SPAN 228 - The Rise of Castilian as the Imperial and Literary Language of Spain
Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course focuses on the idea that the development of language is conditioned not only by its internal linguistic evolution but also by the political, historical and literary context. Thus students will study language from both an internal linguistic point of view and also from an external political, cultural and literary point of view. In this way, students will acquire a deep linguistic knowledge; they will also learn to combine this with other factors, often ignored when studying language, to achieve a better understanding of the topic. We will start by analyzing the most important linguistic features of Galician, Castilian, and Catalan, and how the speakers of these three languages became conscious of their own identities. Then we will study their linguistic, political, and literary relationship from the beginning of the Middle Ages to the 17th century.
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