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3.00 Credits
Sociolinguistics examines ways in which language practices of individuals and communities vary in relation to social, cultural, and individual factors. This course explores topics such as language and identity, language contact, social and regional dialectology, interactional discourse, ethnography of communication, and language and gender.
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3.00 Credits
Discourse analysis examines the structuring and use of language to promote social action - i.e. language produced in recognition of and response to its role in society and effects on others. Theory and research focus on gathering and analyzing naturally-occurring texts to gain understanding of the patterns of social action they respond to and initiate. Research explores spoken, written, and visual texts and sociolinguistic aspects of the relationship between languages, cultures, and individuals. Students will come to understand that identiy - personal, social, national - as well as ideology - are constructed by and, in turn, serve to construct interactional discourse.
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3.00 Credits
Combining the theory and methodology of the ethnographic analysis of culture with the theory and methodology of the sociolinguistic analysis of contextualized talk and text, this course examines the social practice of language in use. While universals of structural and psychological features of language can be identified, language variation also exists within and across cultures. Through collection and analysis of naturally-occurring culturally-grounded data, students will identify and come to appreciate how language structures and reveals the systems that both influence and expose cultural knowledge. Students can apply their awareness to culturally-bounded events in settings such as education, corporations, families, and the world at large.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the stages through which a child passes as he/she masters the phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic systems of his/her native language, consideration of the various theories which attempt to account for the child's ability to acquire language.
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical studies in the area of linguistics and psychology; possible implications of the form of grammar for the language learning process; survey of relevant research.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines language contact as a sociolinguistic phenomenon and articulates its impact on individuals and society. It focuses on issues such as language choice, language maintenance and language death in multilingual communities, national and individual identity, the structure, function and impact of codeswitching, and controversial issues such as bilingual language acquisition and the relationship between bilingualism and a child's cognitive, linguistic and social development.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the role of language in the construction of identities and the significance of identity construction as a negotiated social action within language variation. The concept and construction of identity is investigated at the individual, community, and global levels. The focus of the course is on how these multi-leveled identities are developed and realized through the use of language. The course explores a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives on identity in mono- as well as multi-lingual contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of issues involved in the development and maintenance of varieties of English throughout the world, now commonly referred to as World Englishes. Specifically, this course emphasizes the historical, political, and ideological issues of post-colonialism, globalization, nativization, standardization, hegemony, canon, and pedagogy of native and non-native varieties of English.
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3.00 Credits
Phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon of English in the United States as well as its cultural history with reference to the mother country and the New World, both in colonial and post-revolutionary times.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of English phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon and cultural history through Old English, Middle English, early Modern English and recent Modern English, using literary documents for the older periods, and literary as well as spoken records for the most recent times.
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