{"id":26494,"date":"2016-10-02T11:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=26494&lang=en"},"modified":"2021-10-07T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:34:17","slug":"sociolinguistics-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=26494&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Sociolinguistics (P) (archive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:<\/strong><\/span> Sociolinguistics<\/span>
\nCourse coordinator: <\/strong>Dr. An\u0111el Star\u010devi\u0107, Assistant Professor<\/span>
\nInstructor: <\/strong>Dr. An\u0111el Star\u010devi\u0107, Assistant Professor
\nECTS credits<\/strong> : 5<\/span>
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English<\/span>
\nSemester<\/strong>: II (summer)
\nStatus<\/strong>: elective
\nForm of instruction<\/strong>: 2 lectures + 1 seminar per week
\nExamination<\/strong>: written<\/span><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Week-by-week schedule<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Week<\/strong> \/ Topic
\n<\/strong><\/span>1. Sociolinguistics as a branch of linguistics. The fiction of homogeneity versus language stratification and its varieties. Langue and parole (Saussure), competence and performance (Chomsky) versus communicative competence (Hymes). Speakers\u2019s repertoire within speech community(Labov).<\/span>
\n 2. Regional (rural) and urban dialectology.Research methods. Horizontal and vertical view of language. Social class, age, gender and ethnicity as extra-lingistic constraints in the explanation of systematic language varieties versus free variants.<\/span>
\n 3. Language as a component of ethnicity. Substratum effect. Hypercorrection as a result of social pressure. African American Vernacular English and its origin. Is there a connection between race and language? Language attitudes. Matched-guise test results.<\/span>
\n 4. Language and gender. Grammatical and natural gender in languages (English, French, Croatian). Difference between male and female use of language. Language taboo for women . Women\u2019s language use in \u2018primitive\u2019 societies. Accounting for differences between women\u2019s and men\u2019s language. Activities to change the present ‘biased’ usage.<\/span>
\n5. Language varieties in context. Linguistic communities verbal repertoire. Registers. Style as a continuum and its social meaning.\u00a0 Slang. Difficulties in elicitation of casual, informal speech.<\/span>
\n 6. Address reciprocal, non-reciprocal .Power and solidarity. Polite and familiar V\/T in Croatian and English. Address in some Asian languages. <\/span>
\n 7. Diglossia and monolingualism (Ferguson). Diglossia and bilingualism.( Fishman). H (high) and L (low) varieties. Code switching.<\/span>
\n Language switching in multilingual communities.Identities.<\/span>
\n 8. Revision . Assignments presentations.<\/span>
\n 9. Interactional sociolinguistics. Discourse analysis. Conversation \u00a0as structured, non random, sequences of utterances. Cooperative principle (Grice) ; forcing utterance interpretation. Language functions (Jakobson). Direct and indirect speech acts. Intercultural misunderstandings. Interethnic communication differences. Men and women in conversation.Poststructural views on discourse, style and identity.<\/span>
\n 10. Nation states, monolingualism and multilingualism. Individual and social bilingualism.<\/span>
\n Minority languages in nation states. Welsh and Scots Gaelic. \u2018Melting pot\u2019 in USA; bilingualism and \u2018English Only\u2019.<\/span>
\n11. Standardization. E. Haugen\u2019s model. Status planning and corpus planning (H.Kloss) Standardization of English. Samuel Johnson and his dictionary. Standardization of Croatian and Norwegian (Bokmal and Nynorsk). Ausbau languages (Kloss). Standard language ideology.<\/span>
\n 12. Language and Geography. Traditional dialectology. NORM. The spread of innovations. The loss of \/r\/ in English. Dialect levelling. Koineization. Dialects in USA. Innovations across language barriers: Schprachbund, Balkanisms.<\/span>
\n 13. Languages in Contact. Lingua franca. Simplification and reduction \u00a0in pidgins. Portuguese as the basic structure of pidgins? Creole. Structural similarities in Creoles.<\/span>
\n 14. Sociolinguistics and \u2018new social sensibilities\u2019(Quirk) . Intentional efforts to change language and language behaviour towards women and minorities. Language discrimination, racism and sexism. \u2018Political correctness\u2019.<\/span>
\n 15. Revision and assignment presentations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRequired reading:<\/span>
\nPeter Trudgill: Sociolinguistics, An Introduction to Language and Society. <\/em>4th edition, Penguin, 2000.
\nThe Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics,<\/em> eds. Carmen Llamas et al. Routledge, 2007.
\nR. Wardaugh & J.M. Fuller: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, <\/em>Wiley Blckwell, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suggested Reading:<\/span>
\n1. Romaine : Language and Society , <\/em>Oxford University Press, 2007.
\n2. Stockwell: Sociolinguistics, A resource book for students,<\/em>2nd edition, Routledge, 2007.
\n3. Hudson : Socioliguistics, 2<\/em>nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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