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Introduction to Sociolinguistics - LING219
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, globalization 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 contextualized ways in which people use language, and will have the chance to create and implement their own small sociolinguistics research project.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in Session 2, North Ryde |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Verna Rieschild |
| Prerequisites: |
LING110(P) or admission to BEd(TESOL) |
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| NCCW(s): | LING212, LING216 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Linguistics Faculty of Human Sciences |
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