This coursePresents language in its social context, covering aspects of linguistic variation within and across speech communities. Topics include language and class, gender, age, speech context and ethnicity. Language standardization, code-switching, bilingualism and diglossia, rules of conversation and appropriate address, and societal features of language change will be discussed. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): LING 111.3 or LING 114.3; and one of LING 112.3, SOC 111.3, SOC 112.3, WGST 210.3, or 6 credit units of ARBC, CHIN, CREE, FREN, GERM, GRK, HEB, HNDI, JPNS, LATN, RUSS, SNSK, SPAN or UKR courses.
This coursePresents language in its social context, covering aspects of linguistic variation within and across speech communities. Topics include language and class, gender, age, speech context and ethnicity. Language standardization, code-switching, bilingualism and diglossia, rules of conversation and appropriate address, and societal features of language change will be discussed. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): LING 111.3 or LING 114.3; and one of LING 112.3, SOC 111.3, SOC 112.3, WGST 210.3, or 6 credit units of ARBC, CHIN, CREE, FREN, GERM, GRK, HEB, HNDI, JPNS, LATN, RUSS, SNSK, SPAN or UKR courses.
