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175-019 Language & Society | |
Note | Formerly available as 175-219/319. Students who have completed 175-219/319 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Julie Bradshaw |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial per week. There will be no tutorials in the first or the sixth week of semester |
Subject Description | This subject examines how social factors influence language, and the role language plays in structuring and representing social categories. Specific topics to be covered include: socially determined variation in language styles and registers; language varieties reflecting social class, gender and ethnic group; politeness phenomena, address terms, linguistic variables; overt and covert norms; factors affecting language choice such as, bi- and multi-lingualism, code-switching and code-mixing, diglossia. Students will also study: changes in language status over time; language shift; language maintenance; and language death; new social relationships; new languages such as, pidgins, creoles, lingue franche and mixed languages; the impact of literacy on language; language choice in education; language policies in Australia and overseas. |
Assessment | Two assignment problems of 1000 words each, and a 2000 word essay. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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