Educational guide 2015_16
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Grao en Linguas Estranxeiras
 Materias
  Lingua e sociedade do primeiro idioma estranxeiro: Inglés
   Contidos
Tema Subtema
1. Introduction (week 1) 1.1. A sociolinguistic tool kit
1.2. Sociolinguistic data
1.3. Reading: Sociolinguistics and language change (Andrew Hamer)
1.4. Assignments
2. Accent and dialect (week 2-3) 2.1. Attitudes to accent variation
2.2. Dialectal variation
2.3. Reading: Foreign accents in America (Rosina Lippi-Green)
2.4. Assignments
3. Register and style (week 3-4) 3.1. Euphemism and register
3.2. Register
3.3. Reading: Style and ideology (Normal Fairclough)
3.4. Assignments
4. Ethnicity and multilingualism (week 5-6) 4.1. Code-switching
4.2. Ethnology
4.3. Reading: Language contact and code-switching (John Edwards)
4.4. Assignments
6. Prestige and language loyalty (week 6-7) 6.1. The changing prestige of RP
6.2. Prestige and linguistic minorities
6.3. Reading: The process of standardisation (James Milroy)
6.4. Assignments
7. Age and gender (week 8-9) 7.1. The reality of genderlects
7.2. Gender
7.3. Reading: Men's and women's narratives (Janet Holmes)
7.4. Assignments
8. Pidgins and creoles (week 9-10) 8.1. Post-creolisation
8.2. Characteristics of pidgins and creoles
8.3. Reading: The origins of pidgins and creoles (Ronald Wardhaugh)
8.4. Assignments
9. New, national and international Englishes (11-12) 9.1. Post-colonisation and New Englishes
9.2. Models of analysis
9.3. Reading: World Englishes and contact literature (Braj Kachru)
9.4. Assignments
10. Politeness and accomodation (week 12-13) 10.1 Politeness in mixed-sex conversation
10.2 Politeness
10.3. Reading: Closing turns (Emanuel Schegloff and Harvey Sacks)
10.4. Assignments
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