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| LING0074-1 | Spanish linguistics II
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Barbara De Cock |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| Introduction to linguistic analysis, based on a few practical cases. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| 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. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| To have passed linguistics 1. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| 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/)
Davies, Mark. Corpus del Español. http://www.corpusdelespanol.org (http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/)
as well as published corpus, such as
Briz Gómez, Antonio, y grupo Val. Es. Co. 2002. Corpus de conversaciones coloquiales. Oralia. Madrid: Arco Libros. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| 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. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| - 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). |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| 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 |
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Organizational remarks :
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| On-line notes
Explanatory diagrams will be published on-line. |
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Contacts :
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| barbara.de.cock@gmail.com |
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