Anthony Pym


English sociolinguistics 2005-06

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  Program Overview
Bibliography

Introduction to variation
Notes for video

Practice: PRIOR TO WATCHING THE VIDEO, WRITE DOWN ALL THE NAMES BY WHICH YOU ARE KNOWN Notes for external students
Tasks
  Varieties in school   Tasks for external students
  Styles and change: Labov in New York
Trudgill in Norwich
Social stratification graph
Optional study: Trudgill on music
Tasks for external students
  Diglossia and multilingual speech communities Oberwart table Tasks for external students
  Code-switching Study of code-switching in films (India, South Africa), literature (Achebe), and interviews (Labov with Puerto Ricans) Tasks for external students
  Test on key terms 0 Tasks for external students
  Pidgins and creoles John 1 in Cameroon Pidgin00 Tasks for external students
  Decreolization and recreolization
Dialect chains
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  Language policy
Language death
Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights0 Tasks for external students
  Sex variables . Tasks for external students
  Age variables Age grading
Oberwart table
Creativity from terrorism
Tasks for external students
  Face and accommodation
Pragmatics and cooperation
On Cooperation (only read the part on Grice) Tasks for external students
  Cross-cultural communication Cultural differences in Italian talkshows0 Tasks for external students
  Practice exams
 
February 2004
June 2001
September 2001
February 2002
June 2002 exam
Notes on answers to the exam
10 Jan 2006 Exam I
10.00-12.00 (Tuesday) Aula A 3001
30 Jan 2006 Exam II 10.00-12.00 (Monday) Aula A 3001



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