| Center |
| Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication |
| Departament |
| English and German |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| The theoretical sessions will be largely based on powerpoint presentation in the lecture hall. Additional sources and material will also be offered during the course, such as photocopiable material, online links, etc. A weekly session is devoted to guided practical activities. |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Students will be offered continuous assessment during the course. Those students who do not attend regularly will take a final exam and will have to submit a paper about a topic dealt with during the course. |
| Bibliografia |
| Required Text: Wardhaugh, Ronald. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 4th ed. Cambridge: Blackwell, 2002. Recommended texts: Coulmas, Florian 1996. The Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Crystal, David 2002. Language Death, C.U.P. Crystal, David 1998. English as a global language, C.U.P |
| Continguts |
| - Introduction to the study of language variation. - Regional and societal varieties of English. - Standard English and the effects of standardization. - Contact linguistics I: Bilingualism and diglossia. - Contact linguistics II: Code-switching. The case of Spanglish. - Contact linguistics III: Pidgins and Creoles. The case of BEV. - Contact linguistics IV: Language shift and language death. - Language and Gender,culture and discourse. |
| Objetius |
| This is an introductory course to English sociolinguistics where different perspectives in the analysis of variation are examined. We shall consider variation and its effects on the linguistic production of native and non-native speakers of English in different contexts. |
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