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175-019 Language & Society | |
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Note | Formerly available as 175-219/319. Students who have completed 175-219 or 175-319 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Prof Michael Clyne |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial per week. There will be no tutorial in the first weeks 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; and factors affecting language choice such as, bi- and multi-lingualism, code-switching and code-mixing, and diglossia. Students will also study changes in language status over time; language shift; language maintenance; 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; and language policies in Australia and overseas. |
Assessment | Two assignment problems of 1000 words each, and a 2000 word essay. |
Prescribed Texts | A reading pack prepared by the department. |
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