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Special Topics-Sociolinguistics BAL |
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Class #:
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21347 | |
Enrollment Capacity:
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3 |
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BAL |
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Enrollment Total:
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3 |
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3.00 credits
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Dates:
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01/31/2022 - 05/13/2022 |
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CLOSED |
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M W F , 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM |
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Clemen 930 |
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North Campus |
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| This course explores socially patterned variation in language and its connection to long-term language change. In addition to considering social context and speaker identity as factors that condition variation, we also discuss the influence of linguistic and cognitive constraints. We consider topics like style and performance, language attitudes, socioeconomic status, gender, and ethnicity, as well as lexical frequency, syntactic priming, and phonological context, among
many others. We consider questions like, Why do people speak differently with different interlocutors in different social contexts? Are they consciously aware of how their speech changes? Is linguistic variation random or patterned? Do some speech communities exhibit
greater variation or faster change? Can we stop or slow the rate of language change over time? Students will consider these questions in the context of previous research studies and in the development of their own pilot studies. By the end of the semester, you will have a clearer understanding of language in its social context, and you will have a better grasp of how to test your own hypotheses about language. |
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| Course Description |
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| Specialized topics in Romance Languages and Literatures. This is a three-credit course with variable content. Offered in English. |
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Balukas |
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