Languages and Cultures

West Chester University

Dr. Jerome Williams
109 Main Hall
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-2700
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Jerome Williams


Israel Sanz-Sánchez

Israel Sanz-Sánchez
Assistant Professor of Languages
isanzsanch@wcupa.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., San Diego State University
B.A., Universidad de Valladolid
 Israel Sanz-Sánchez

Research interests:
Spanish linguistics, historical dialectology, sociolinguistics, Spanish in the United States, documentary evidence of the Spanish presence in the US Southwest, language ideologies.

Recent Publications/Activities:

Sanz, Israel, and Heather Bamford, eds. and trans. 2008. Jerry R. Craddock. Palabra de rey: Selección de estudios sobre legislación alfonsina. Salamanca: Seminario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas. I.S.B.N. 978-84-934697-0-2

Sanz, Israel. 2009. “Creatividad léxica en una jerga gay de la frontera México-Estados Unidos” Hispania 92.1: 142-54.

Sanz-Sánchez, Israel. 2009. Review of Garland, Bills, and Neddy Vigil. 2008. The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Romance Philology 63.2: 171-184.

Sanz-Sánchez, Israel. 2010. “Seeing the new in the old – The use of archival materials in the classroom as a tool to develop a global awareness”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Higher Education (Heredia, Costa Rica, March 8-12, 2010). CD-ROM.

Sanz-Sánchez, Israel. 2011. “Juan Jaramillo’s Relación: A philological reassessment of the historical approaches to a document of the Coronado expedition.” New Mexico Historical Review 86.1: 21-81.

Sanz-Sánchez, Israel, and Daniel Villa. “The genesis of Traditional New Mexican Spanish: The emergence of a unique dialect in the Americas”. Forthcoming Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Fall 2011.

Sanz-Sánchez, Israel. "Dialect contact as the cause for dialect change – evidence from a phonemic merger in colonial New Mexican Spanish." Forthcoming Diachronica, 2012.

 

Classes regularly taught:

SPA101, 102, 201 – Elementary Spanish

SPA315 Advanced Readings in Spanish

SPA365 Spanish Phonetics

SPA370/557 History of the Spanish Language

LIN211 Language Communities in the United States and Canada

LIN230 Introduction to Linguistics

                 

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