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Root number
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100947 |
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Semester
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HS2024 |
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Type of course
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Lecture |
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Allocation to subject
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English Languages and Literatures |
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Type of exam
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Written exam |
| Title |
Language and Society (MA Foundation Lecture) (open to CSLS students) |
| Description |
Diese Veranstaltung gehört auch zum MA-Programm "Soziolinguistik" am Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS)
This course examines the underlying foundations of and recent developments in sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language. The aim is to provide a detailed examination of some sociolinguistic debates at a number of levels. We first consider how sociolinguistics differentiates itself from practices in asocial approaches to linguistics before looking at debates that rage both within sociolinguistics as a whole and, later, within individual sub-branches of the discipline. The course considers topics such as: competence and performance; the role of intuition in the study of language; the role of variability, change and diachrony; description, prescription and “verbal hygiene”; social identity; language ideologies; authenticity; and indexicality.
It aims, then, to examine some of the foundational building blocks of sociolinguistics – why it emerged when it did, how and why it differentiates itself from other forms of linguistics, and some of the fundamental debates that are going on within sociolinguistics. It is, therefore, largely (meta)theoretical. By the end of the course, students should know why sociolinguists do what they do, and the sorts of themes that sociolinguists are still grappling with, sixty years after the foundation of the discipline.
Required Reading: Readings will be placed on ILIAS for each session. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
David Britain, Institute of English Languages and Literatures ✉
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ECTS
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4 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Tuesday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
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Tuesday 10/12/2024 10:15-13:00
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Friday 10/1/2025 10:15-12:00
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Seminarraum F 003, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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Hörraum F 021, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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Seminarraum F -104, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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