DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Comparative Literature and Languages
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 2° Year - LINGUISTIC Curriculum

Historia de la lengua española

Teaching Staff

Course Structure

• El español y sus variantes desde el siglo XIX hasta nuestros días
  

  The course aims to develop the historical-linguistic knowledge of the Spanish language from the nineteenth century to today, following the concept of linguistic politics through the work of the Real Academia de la Lengua Española in order to acquire the necessary critical skills with respect to a Panispan vision of the tongue. The thematic, methodological and procedural deepening aims to guide students to research but also to improve the language.

• Estudio e interpretación de textos de distinta tipología del español contemporáneo
  

  The course aims to develop the skills necessary for the analysis of contemporary Spanish texts with particular attention to the colloquail register.

  The thematic, but also methodological and procedural deepening, aims to guide students to research and improve the language.

Detailed Course Content

• El español y sus variantes desde el siglo XIX hasta nuestros días
  

  A Reflection on the concept of national language through the observation of the evolution from an eighteenth-century project for a monolingual nation to the current recognition of plurilingualism (in Spain and in the other countries involved) with a space to the birth and disappearance of the calò, the language of the Spanish gypsies.

  Analysis of the planning of the linguistic unity in Spain, in Latin America, and its expansion in New Guinea and in the Philippines through the observation of the grammatical and lexicographical works of the Real Academia de la lengua Española and of the authentic documents that will show its use real in the nineteenth century, in the twentieth s. and today.

  Panispanism and neostandard: the new era of the Spanish language. Observations from a phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic point of view.

• Estudio e interpretación de textos de distinta tipología del español contemporáneo
  

  Reflection on the different registers of written and oral discourse through the analysis of authentic texts that exemplify the use of contemporary Spanish and its most salient features from the diachronic, diatopic, diastratic and diamesic point of view. Particular attention will be given to the lexical legacy of the calò in the colloquial register.

Textbook Information

• El español y sus variantes desde el siglo XIX hasta nuestros días
  
  • Brumme, J. (2004), Las regulaciones legales de la lengua (del español y las otras lenguas de España y América), in R. Cano, (coord.), Historia de la lengua española, Barcelona, Ariel, pp. 945-972. (chapter avalaible on line)
  • Quilis, A. (1992), La lengua española en el mundo, Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, pp. 170.
  • López Morales, H., (2010) La andadura del español por el mundo, Madrid, Taurus, 472 pp. (chapps. 8-12).
• Estudio e interpretación de textos de distinta tipología del español contemporáneo
  
  • Gimeno Menéndez, F., (2009), Dialectología y sociolingüística españolas, Alicante, Universitat d’Alacant/Universidad de Alicante, pp. 371. (online)
  • Buzek, I. (2011), Historia crítica de la lexicografía gitano-española, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno, cap. 1 (avalaible from https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/124535/SpisyFF_406-2011-1_4.pdf?sequence=1).