Richard Barrutia
Richard Barrutia (born September 12, 1925 in Salt Lake City , † July 6, 1999 in Corona del Mar ) was an American Romance scholar , Hispanist , Lusitanist and foreign language teacher of Basque origin.
Life
Barrutia studied at Arizona State University (Bachelor's degree in 1958, Master's degree in 1960 with the thesis Distortion as a refinement in the drama of Federico Garcia Lorca ) and at the Thunderbird American Institute for Foreign Trade in Phoenix (Arizona) (Bachelor's degree 1959). He received his doctorate in 1964 from the University of Texas at Austin with the thesis Linguistic theory of language learning as related to machine teaching (Heidelberg 1969) and taught Spanish and Portuguese from 1965 until his retirement in 1993 at the University of California, Irvine , where he co-founded the department (Chairman from 1976 to 1979) and built a language center with a language laboratory.
In 1977 Barrutia was President of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
He was a knight in the Order of Civil Merit (Spain) .
Works
- (with Fred P Ellison and Rachel de Queiroz) Modern Portuguese , o.O. 1967–1971 (textbook)
- (with Tracy Terrell) Fonética y Fonología Española , New York 1982
- (with Armin Schwegler) Fonética y fonología españolas. Teoría y práctica , New York 1994
Web links
- http://www.deseretnews.com/article/708913/Obituary-Richard-Barrutia.html?pg=all (obituary, English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barrutia, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance scholar, Hispanist, Lusitanist and foreign language teacher of Basque origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salt Lake City |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1999 |
| Place of death | Corona del Mar |