Varieties of Spanish

Course description and reading list [pdf format]

>Introduction. What do we mean by 'the Spanish language'? Variety and 'correctness'. [pdf format]
Register in modern Spanish: (1) Spoken and written language [pdf format]
Register in modern Spanish: (2) 'Slang' and cryptolects [pdf format]
Register in modern Spanish: (3) Journalism [pdf format]
Register in modern Spanish: (4) More specialised registers [pdf format]
Dialects: (1) The dialect map of the Iberian Peninsula [pdf format]
Dialects: (2) Old and New Castile [pdf format]
Dialects: (3) Andalusia and the Canaries [pdf format]
Latin America [pdf format]
Judeo-Spanish [pdf format]
Creoles: Papiamentu [pdf format]

Link to anthology of texts (QM only)

Assessed coursework assignment [pdf format]

Specimen exam paper [pdf format]
2006 exam paper [pdf format]

Further materials will be posted here during the course.