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 175-219 Language in Society

Note

Available as 175-319 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Prerequisites

12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level or Departmental approval.

Semester

2

Contact

Two lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Subject Description

Socially determined variation in language: styles and registers, language varieties reflecting social class, gender and ethnic group; politeness phenomena, address terms, linguistic variables. Factors affecting language choice: bi- and multi-lingualism, code-switching and code-mixing, diglossia; language shift; language maintenance and language death; pidgins, creoles and lingue franche. Functional ecology of language varieties, impact of literacy on language, language choice in education, language policies in Australia and overseas. Ethnography of communication; conversational analysis and conversational rules.

Assessment

Not more than 5,000 words in written work.

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