Lecture course for 2nd and 3rd year students
Course description:
The course offers an overview of the main topics of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, as well as provides a basic introduction to the most important methods used in sociolinguistic research and analysis. The lectures will be built around a discussion of topics and notions such as the speech community, dialect, code, variation, pidgins and creoles, bilingualism, multilingualism, diglossia, address systems, language and gender, language planning, language maintenance, and language shift.
In the final exam, students will be required to provide definitions of key sociolinguistic notions. Cheating in the exam will automatically result in a failing grade for the course regardless of academic achievement in class otherwise.
Requirements:
Final exam, written (100%)
Grading:
Textbook:
Wardhaugh, Ronald. 1992. An introduction to sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
(The text can be located at the Institute Library as well as in the Irinyi xerox center.)
Schedule: