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Shonna Trinch
Address and Phone:
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Florida State University
304B Diffenbaugh Building
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1540
850-644-8181 (Office)
850-644-0524 (Fax)
strinch@mailer.fsu.edu(Email)
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Shonna Trinch
Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Oral Narrative, Spanish Linguistics, Spanish.
Professor Trinch's research applies discourse analysis and interactional
sociolinguistics to the study of oral narratives. Her research examines the
sociolinguistic intersection of US Latina women with the US Civil and
Criminal Justice System. Currently, Prof. Trinch is working with a corpus of
oral narratives of domestic violence that are created by Latina women and the
sociolegal service providers to whom they turn for assistance. Trinch
collected more than 300 of these interviews in various cities throughout the
US. To date she has published findings on these data in Language in Society,
Text and the Journal of Sociolinguistics. Dr. Trinch has just finished for
review a book-length manuscript entitled, Discrepant Versions of Violence:
The Problem of Speech Genres in Latina Women"s Narratives of Domestic Abuse.
Courses for Fall 2002
Undergraduate
LIN 3041: Introduction to Linguistics
Trinch, MWF 2:30-3:20 in 117 Bellamy Building
Description: LIN 3041 introduces students to the discipline of linguistics,
or, broadly speaking, the systematic study of language. In this course
students are encouraged to think about language as the sounds, minimal
meaning-bearing units, words, phrases and sentences that come together in a
rule-governed system to communicate meaning. The formal areas of Linguistics
(Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics), as well as the
methods linguists use to analyze these different parts and processes of
language are examined. Near the end of the course, functional and applied
approaches to language will be discussed. These include Pragmatics,
Sociolinguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition.
The course is designed to bring about an appreciation of the wealth of
subconscious knowledge that all human beings acquire, and thus possess, to be
able to speak and comprehend their native languages.
Readings: O'Grady, William, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, and Janie
Rees-Miller (eds.). 2001. Contemporary Linguistics (4th edition). New York:
St. Martin's Press. Other readings may also be assigned.
Evaluation: Course requirements include chapter quizzes, a short group
paper/presentation, a midterm, and a final examination. Other short writing
assignments may also be assigned.
SPN 4700: Fonética y fonología españolas.
Trinch, MWF 11:15-12:05 in 209 Bellamy Building
Description: SPN 4700 is a study of Spanish Phonetics, or the study of the
sounds of Spanish. By looking at and listening to the sound-system of the
Spanish language in a systematic way, students will not only be able to
describe the sounds of the language, but they will also come to be able to
predict the way sounds will pattern and organize. We will compare and
contrast the sounds of Spanish with those of English to understand why
speakers of one of these languages may sound "foreign" when speaking the
other. We will study various dialectal (both regional and historical)
differences in Spanish pronunciation, and our knowledge of the articulatory
and auditory sound system should help to explain how different Spanish
speakers come to have different accents in Spanish.
Readings: Barrutia, Richard and Armin Schwegler. 1994. Fonética y fonología
españolas: teoría y práctica (2nd Edition). New York: John Wiley.
Other readings may also be assigned.
Evaluation: Course requirements include class participation, four chapter
exams, two research projects.
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