LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY (4 Credits)
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Identify the concept of sociolinguistics and sociology of language; Identify the concept of pragmatics; Identify the concept of discourse analysis; Construct the business plan and evaluate the business model.
Topics:
- Sociolinguistics vs. Sociology of Language;
- Social factors in language change;
- Dialect in Society;
- The Sociolinguistics of Communication Media;
- Diglossia and Multilingualism;
- Code-switching;
- Language contact and language generation: Pidgins and Creoles;
- Language contact, language degeneration, and displacement;
- The Study of Meaning: Pragmatics vs Semantics;
- Deixis and distance;
- Cooperative and implicature;
- Speech acts and events;
- Discourse and Culture.
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