Week - 1 |
Introduction to the course. |
Week - 2 |
Defining Sociolinguistics: Relationship between Language and Society. |
Week - 3 |
Language and Dialects: Regional Dialects, Social Dialects, Style and Register; Regional and
Social Variation. |
Week - 4 |
Lingua Franca, Pidgin and Creole Languages |
Week - 5 |
Diglossia; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Code-switching and Code-mixing |
Week - 6 |
Language and Culture; The Whorfian Hypothesis: Kinship Systems, Taboo and Euphemism |
Week - 7 |
Midterm exam |
Week - 8 |
The Linguistic Variable: Methodology of Sociolinguistics |
Week - 9 |
Politeness in Language, Power and Solidarity Impressions |
Week - 10 |
Use of Language Diversity: Gender and Age |
Week - 11 |
Language Planning, Home Language and Official Language Concepts; Disappearance of languages-
Language Loss
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Week - 12 |
Sociolinguistics and Education |
Week - 13 |
Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition |
Week - 14 |
Revision |