SPAN 392 - Spanish Language Theory and Practice

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter

Prerequisite: SPAN 215 or SPAN 275. A topics course that approaches language study through theories of language use and meaning, as well as their practical application through extensive writing exercises. Topics may include translation theory, analysis of theoretical approaches to language study, and advanced grammar. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Topic for Winter 2012:

SPAN 392-01: Spanish Language Theory and Practice. Power and Ideology: (Critical) Discourse Perspectives (3). Prerequisite: SPAN 215 or 275. This course explores different theoretical approaches to account for language use and, in particular, for the analysis of meaning and the way it is constructed and reconstructed in discourse, especially by the dominant classes with access to public discourse. This course observes how social actors achieve social and political goals by employing specific linguistic choices, therefore relating language use with social processes. Reyes.