Sociolinguistics

 



 

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Time Period

Date

Topics

No of Cr. Hr

Activities

Week 1

 

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS

§   What is Sociolinguistics?

§   Some Definitions of Sociolinguistics

§   Sociolinguistics and Linguistics

§   Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language

           WorkSheet 1

SOCIOLINGUISTIC PHENOMENA

§   Scope and ramifications of sociolinguistics

§   Introduction to sociolinguistics

§   Competence and performance

§   Whorfian hypothesis

§   Language and culture

§   Scope of sociolinguistics

3

 

Week 2

 

SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND VARIETIES OF LANGUAGE

§   The Question of Varieties of Language in Sociolinguistics

§   What Are Linguistics Items?

§   The Terms- Variety and Lect

§   Types and Significance of Varieties of Language Attitude towards Language Varieties

3

 

Week 3

 

THEORIES OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS LANGUAGE AND DIALECTS

§   Regional Dialects

§   Social Dialects

§   Idiolects

§   Dialects and Identity

§   Study of Dialects in Sociolinguistics

§   Language in Society

3

 

Week 4

 

MULTILINGUAL SPEECH COMMUNITIES

§   What Are Speech Communities?

§   Language choice in multilingual communities

Networks and Repertoires

3

Quiz 1

Week 5

 

SOME CONCEPTS RELATED TO LANGUAGE VARIETIES

§   Language in culture and culture in language

3

 

Week 6

 

LINGUISTIC INEQUALITY IN SOCIAL PARADIGMS

 

REGISTER AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS-I

§   What is a Register?

§   Some Examples of Register

§   How a Register is Different from a Dialect

§   What is Jargon?

§   Difference in a Register and Jargon

§   What is Accent?

§   Accents vs. Dialect

§   What is Style?

§   Register vs. Style

3

 


 

 

 

 

 

Week 7

 

LANGUAGE VARIATIONS-I

§   Speech communities and communicative competence

§   Language variation and social change

3

Quiz 2

Week 8

 

REVISION

3

 

Week 9

 

MID TERM EXAMS

3

 

Week 10

 

SOCIAL PRACTICES AND ONGOING GLOBAL PROCESSES

TERMS RELATED TO LANGUAGE CHANGE I

§   Language Change and Maintenance

§   Language Shift

§   Language Desertion

§   Language Death

§   Language Accommodation

 

TERMS RELATED TO LANGUAGE CHANGE– II

§   Pidgin

§   Creole

3

Quiz 3

Week 11

 

ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS

 

SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND USE OF CODES

§   Code Switching and Sociolinguistics

§   Code Mixing and Sociolinguistics

§   Tag Switching

§   Why Code Switching and Mixing?

§   Hybridization

3

 

Week 12

 

LANGUAGE PLANNING AND SOCIETAL ISSUES

3

 

Week 13

 

NON- STANDARD LANGUAGE

§   What is Slang?

§   What are Clichés?

§   Local Proverbs and Idioms in Sociolinguistics

§   Functions of Non- standard Language

§   Examples of Non- standard Language from English

DIGLOSSIA

§   What is Diglossia?

§   Diglossia and the Social Hierarchy

§   Extended Concept of Diglossia

§   Examples of Diglossia

§   Diglossia and Language Shift

3

Quiz 4

Week 14

 

CODE SWITCHING AND CODE MIXING IN PAKISTAN

§   Code Switching of English and Urdu in Pakistan

§   Code Switching of Other Languages in Pakistan

§   Code Mixing of English and Urdu in Pakistan

§   Code Mixing of Other Languages in Pakistan

§   Language Hybridization in Pakistan

§   National Language and language planning

3

 


 

Week 15

 

LANGUAGE PRACTICES AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC SCENE OF PAKISTAN- I

§   Modes of Address and Sociolinguistic Scene of Pakistan

§   Reduplication and Sociolinguistic Scene of Pakistan

§   Repetition of Codes and Sociolinguistic Scene of Pakistan

§   Names and Titles and Sociolinguistic Scene of Pakistan

§   Greetings and Sociolinguistic Scene of Pakistan

3

 

Week 16

 

LANGUAGE PRACTICES AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC SCENE OF PAKISTAN- II

§   Gender Identity and Language in Pakistan

§   Proverbs in Pakistan and Sociolinguistic Perspective

§   Literature and Sociolinguistics

§   Sociolinguistics and Oral Literature Across the Globe

§   Sociolinguistics and Oral Literature in Pakistan

3

 

Week 17

 

LANGUAGE CONFLICTS AND POLITICS IN SOUTH ASIA

 

GLOBAL LANGUAGE PRACTICES

3

Presentation (10 marks)

Week 18

 

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

 

 

 

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