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Sociolinguistics

702325 - Sociolinguistics
Faculty

Faculty of Languages and Communication

Department

Translation

Credit Hours

3

Pre-requisite

702222

Co-requisite

_

Distribution

3+0
This course raises students? awareness of the relations between linguistic phenomena and human social life by covering several recent theoretical approaches to the study of language and society: variational sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and international sociolinguistics. It also covers the development of pidgins and creoles, multilingualism, and language choice.