-- Details for each unit will be provided in the first session of the course, together with the relevant
-- This is a selection of the main topics which will be discussed in the course, though not exclusively. |
- Framework: Language Variation and Change, Sociolinguistics, Historical Sociolinguistics
- Accent and dialect
- Age: real time and apparent time change
- New, national and international Englishes
- Norms, usage and attitudes to usage
- Patterns of (historical) change
- Register and style
- The gender paradox
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