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