Corpus-based Approaches to Documenting & Exploring Spanglish in the US

Applied Linguistics & Society Virtual Lecture Series

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST

Corpus-Based Approaches to Documenting and Exploring Spanglish in the US 

Dr. Jacqueline Serigos (Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics, George Mason University) 

February 16, 6-7pm EST 

As Spanish and English have co-existed within the US for centuries, this country has become an ideal setting to explore the diverse linguistic phenomena that arise when two languages come into contact.  Though often stigmatized or devalued, the diversity of the Spanish spoken in the US exemplifies a range of linguistic innovations, contact features, language preservation and loss that occur in contact settings. This talk highlights several corpora that have documented US Spanish, with particular attention paid to the Spanish in Texas corpus, and shows how these corpora can be used to answer questions about language change and contact. There will be a brief hands-on activity in which we will explore these data sets. We will also briefly touch on the role that technology, including computational programming, has to offer when working with corpora. 

Registration is required! Please click on the title of the talk to register through the link.  

Contact Ellen J. Serafini (eserafi2@gmu.edu) with any questions.