Faculty

Donald Tuten,
Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of the Emory Program in Linguistics

512S Callaway Center
404-727-6487
dtuten@emory.edu

Professor Tuten is from Savannah, Georgia and first learned Spanish as an AFS exchange student in Cali and Bogotá, Colombia. He has also lived and studied in several areas of Spain and France. He received his M.A. in Spanish literature and language and his Ph.D. in Hispanic linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on questions of language change in Spanish and other languages, and this is the topic of his 2003 book Koineization in Medieval Spanish (Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter), which examines the effects of dialect mixing, speech accommodation and dialect/language acquisition on the development of medieval Castilian. His present projects -- including an ongoing study on language, discourse and politeness in medieval and early modern Spain -- focus on the connections between social, cultural, and linguistic change. Professor Tuten also has a strong interest in the fields of applied linguistics, language pedagogy and intercultural communication. He is principal author of the intermediate Spanish language and culture textbook Fuentes: Lectura y redacción (2005, Boston: Houghton Mifflin). Prof. Tuten teaches courses in linguistics in both the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Linguistics.