LING102-10S2 (C) Semester Two 2010

Language and Society

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 12 July 2010
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 25 July 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 10 October 2010

Description

This course looks at how language works in society. For example, it investigates linguistic variation and language use in conversations, the linguistic markers of social identity and attitudes to different varieties of language (accents, dialects etc).

Restrictions

ENGL323

Course Coordinator

Koenraad Kuiper

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Test 1 20 Aug 2010 30%
Test 2 12 Oct 2010 30%
Final examination 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Trudgill, Peter; Sociolinguistics : an introduction to language and society ; 4th ed; Penguin, 2000.

Recommended Reading

Bauer, Laurie , Trudgill, Peter; Language myths ; Penguin Books, 1998.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $560.00

International fee $2,363.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Languages and Cultures .

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