This unit introduces students to the field of sociolinguistics, and provides a useful foundation for LING332 Anthropological Linguistics, LING324 Bilingualism and LING333 Australian English. Students attend interactive lectures and tutorials that specifically address topics of the patterns and origins of variation and change in a dialect, social aspects of interaction, globalisation and the spread and loss of languages, how culture and world views affect language and interaction norms, and multilingual individuals and states. Students will explore the many contextualised ways in which people use language, and will have the chance to create and implement their own small sociolinguistics... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Verna Rieschild
Prerequisites: LING110(P) or SSC100
