English Sociolinguistics

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ENGL 3100 or equivalent or consent of instructor. This course presents a survey of topics in sociolinguistics, the study of the relation between language and society, with some emphasis on language variation in English. The course offers both quantitative and qualitative approaches to topics such as social dialectology, variationist and third-wave sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and language in relation to education, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.