Sociolinguistics

Catalog description

This course explores various factors of language variation (location, culture, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, social class, etc.) and how the attitudes of language speakers lead to concepts such as “standard” and “non-standard.” This course will also examine individual and societal multilingualism (such as diglossia, codeswitching, and translanguaging). The Sociolinguistics course serves as the reading- and writing-intensive course in the TESOL program, with a stronger focus on graduate-level academic writing.