Language and Society

This course discusses the social dimensions of language. It presents seminal sociolinguistic paradigms and methodological choices within sociolinguistic and ethnographic research. It also presents topics on the analysis of gender and language, child discourse and institutional discourse.

Objectives

1. To understand the framework of sociolinguistic and ethnographic research and discourse analysis 2. To understand basic paradigms of sociolinguistic research 3. To be able to collect, analyze and compare sociolinguistic data 4. To be able to write and present a sociolinguistic paper

Prerequisites

None

Syllabus

Indroduction, Definitions, Methodology, Variationist Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Relativity, Gender and Language, Language Sexism, Child Discourse, Forensic Linguistics