Objectives and competences
The objective of this course is to understand the various links between language and society and the connectedness and the diversity of language varieties. The objective of this course is also to analyze the appointed chosen topics and to critically evaluate the literature, researches, their results, language behavoir and the prestige of some language varieties. These objectives are to be used in the second part of the seminar. Then homeworks and a paper will demonstrate the integral knowledge of the study of language and culture. Certain sociolinguistic knowledge is neccesary to understand the language phenomena of the modern language and the history of language; at the same time this knowledge makes insights into future development possible.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Part 1: Sociolinguistcs as a lingustic subdiscipline: themes, brief review of the history of sociolinguistics, contemporary problems, basic concepts and basic theories, basic research methods.
nonlinguistic factors: gender, age, region, occupation, social group, interests, cultural environment, media, institutions etc. Language varieties of the German language: dialects, city dialect, vernaculars, standard language etc.
Part 2: every year some themes will the discussed e.g. mono- and multilingualism in the EU, language and school policies in the EU, language phenomena in the joined Germany, eurolinguistics, prestige of the dialects in Europe, language death, youth language, gender linguistics, language of the modern media, language of migrants, pidgin- and creole languages, language contacts, key-words in the culture etc.
Learning and teaching methods
Seminar
The information and communications technology is used for educational purposes in the teaching and learning process.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course the student will be able to:
• understand the basic sociolinguistic knowledge, e.g. language varieties or nonlinguistic factors.
• Use and analyze the connections between the present and past language phenomena and theories, which links this course to other courses of the program. The knowledge can also be used for the understanding of the varieties of German and at the same time in the issues of prestige of a particular variety. At the same time the knowledge can be used in the dealing with actual phenomena in modern German, e.g. the language phenomena in the media or the pidgin-forms of the German language.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
communications skills (to express in speech and in writting),
use of information technology (searching for the information on the web).
Readings
Izbrana poglavja iz naslednjih knjig:
• Barbour, S. / Stevenson, P. 1998: Variation im Deutschen. Soziolinguistische Perspektiven (de Gruyter Studienbuch). de Gruyter, Berlin.
• Veith, W.H. 2005: Soziolinguistik. Ein Arbeitsbuch. Narr, Tübingen.
• Mesthrie, R. et al. 2000: Introducing Sociolinguistics. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
• Ammon, U. / Mattheier, K. / Nelde, P. (eds.) 2000:. Die Zukunft der europäischen Soziolinguistik. The future of European Sociolinguistics. Niemeyer, Tübingen.
Različna literatura glede na izbrano temo v drugem delu seminarja.
Prerequisits
Prerequisits for acceding the course:
None.
Conditions for prerequisits:
achieved at least two third of the points at oral presentation to accede to the written examination.
