Available as an outside option to all undergraduate and General Course students. Students can take this course in any year of their studies following approval from the teacher responsible and subject to their own programme regulations.
Available as an outside option to all undergraduate and General Course students. Students can take this course in any year of their studies following approval from the teacher responsible and subject to their own programme regulations.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 1 hour of lectures and 1 hour of classes in the ST. Two hours per week, featuring: (a) Lectures on a range of concepts and themes; (b) classes including students' presentations; (c) revision workshops; (d) tutorials. ?Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6 of MT and LT.
Short essays, linguistic analyses, presentations.
Edwards, John (2013). Sociolinguistics: A?Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press Mesthrie, Rajend (ed) (2011)?The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Meyerhoff, Miriam (2018). Introducing Sociolinguistics, 3rd ed., London: Routledge; Mooney, Annabelle et al (2015). Language, Society and Power. An Introduction, 4th edition, London: Routledge Wardhaugh, Ronald (2014). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 7th ed., Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell? Wodak, Ruth et al (2011) The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics, London: SAGE Yule, George (2016). The Study of Language, 6th ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Exam (50%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period. Coursework (50%). The coursework consists of a sociolinguistic project which includes an oral presentation of the project (10%, 500 words) in the LT and a project essay? (40%, 4000 words) in the ST.