A&H 225 Sociolinguistics

Content

Sociolinguistics is the study of the relation between language and society. It deals with such socially relevant issues as language variation, language attitudes, linguistic dis­crimin­ation, language and culture, male versus female language, bilingualism and multi­lingualism, lan­guage planning, language maintenance and language death. The aims of this course are to provide students with a comprehensive coverage of theory and practice in sociolinguistics, to inform their understanding of its historical develop­ment through a critical reading of a number of classics in the field, to equip them with the analytical tools needed to understand and evalu­ate contemporary sociolinguistic research, and to develop their awareness of the complex inter­relationships between linguistic and social structures.

Instructor

Dr. Ernestine Lahey

Track

Linguistics

Period

Fall / 2009

Course Material

• Coupland, Nikolas & Adam Jaworksi. The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009.
  
• Wardhaugh, Ronald. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 5th ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Prerequisites

One needs to have followed one of the following courses in order to take this course:

• A&H 126 Introduction to English Linguistics
• ACC 220 Stylistics
• SCI 235 Psycholinguistics

Additional Prerequisites

Important: For the 2009-2 (Fall 2009) semester only, the prerequisites for this course have changed.  In Fall 2009 A&H 225 will be open to students who:

• have taken any courses in the linguistics track
• have taken any courses in the sociology track
• have taken any courses in anthropology
• have taken any courses in the Rhetoric and Argumentation track
• have taken SCI 235: Psycholinguistics
• have taken ACC 260 plus any other Arts and Humanities course

Required for

This course is required in order to take the following course:

• A&H 325 Topics in Linguistics