SPAN 199 - SPRING 2025
Using sociolinguistics as a guiding discipline, we will explore the relationship between language, power, and multilingualism within the diverse cultural landscape of Miami. We will study how migration, exile, globalization, and the media have shaped the stories of Spanish, Haitian Creole, English, and other languages. Through readings, food tours, local fieldwork, seminars with Miami-based researchers, visits with local authors, and cooking classes that teach you Spanish, students will immerse themselves into Miami to study multilingualism in an urban, global city.
Dr. Callesano is a sociolinguist whose research focuses on language variation, perception, and bilingualism. He specifically investigates the relationship between language and social variation and how that variation is judged and policed by others. Having completed his M.A. in Linguistics in Miami at FIU and after a decade of research on the sociolinguistic context of Miami, Dr. Callesano is thrilled to share this course with students.
*Course fee estimate: $2,000
