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Study programmes 2010-2011Last update : 11/04/2011
LROM0191-1  Spanish linguistics II
Duration :  30h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
Bachelor in Translation and Interpreting, 3rd yearToute l'année3
Holder(s) :  Barbara De Cock
Language :  French language
Course contents :  Introduction to linguistic analysis, based on a few practical cases.
Course objective :  By the end of the course, students will be able to analyse linguistic information in written and spoken Spanish, by consulting corpus and researching scientific literature in the field and current theories.
Prerequisites :  To have passed linguistics 1.
Workshops :  Practical work will be integrated into the course. This consists of analysis of extracts from corpus (oral and written). These extracts will come from consultation of (free) online corpus such as CREA Real Academia Española. Banco de datos (CREA) [en línea]. Corpus de referencia del español actual. http://www.rae.es (http://www.rae.es/" target="_blank Davies, Mark. Corpus del Español. )http://www.corpusdelespanol.org (http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/" target="_blank as well as published corpus, such as Briz Gómez, Antonio, y grupo Val. Es. Co. 2002. Corpus de conversaciones coloquiales. Oralia. Madrid: Arco Libros.)
Organization :  See online timetable
Students should prepare by reading scientific articles. The course consists of more advanced reading of articles as well as the application of analysis to several concrete themes, such as references to person and impersonal constructions, discursive markers and linguistic politeness.
Written notes :  - Anthology of scientific articles
-Bosque, Ignacio & Demonte, Violeta. 2000. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa. (Students do not need to buy these publications but are encouraged to consult them in the library).
Assessment :  20%: continuous assessment, including preparatory reading, participation in class, contributing concrete examples from daily life (emails, conversations, reading other than that required during class)
40%: personal work (application of analysis covered in class)
40%: oral exam: the oral exam consists of a discussion of the individual piece of work as well as general questions
Contacts :  barbara.de.cock@gmail.com
Remarks :  On-line notes Explanatory diagrams will be published on-line.


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