Objectives and competences
- To increase your awareness of the ways that language and social processes interact.
- To present established as well as innovative approaches to sociolinguistic research.
- To present new findings and perspectives on language in relation to culture, social relationships and social change.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- An overview of the option of sociolinguistics – studying language in its social context and looking at how linguistic choices are associated with social and situational characteristics.
- History of sociolinguistics.
- The basic sociolinguistic concepts and terminology.
-Linguistic variations.
- Sociolinguistics in the global era.
- New approaches to the key themes within modern sociolinguistics, including language and gender, language planning and language ecology, and social change.
Learning and teaching methods
Presentation content at encouraging students to approach problem solving and planned specific problems.
Interpretation of phenomena in real texts. Encouraging students to actively create and participate in an in-depth and critical judgment.
The information and communications technology is used for educational purposes in the teaching and learning process.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- To understand language as a form of social practice.
-The ability to qualify and quantify linguistic and social phenomena in texts. On the theoretical and practical level language command linguistic variability in communication spheres.
- Ability to apply sociolinguistic principles in teaching, and everyday situations.
- Ability to give an independent discussion of a single sociolinguistic topic that is currently an important social/political issue.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
The ability to independently and autonomously act on the field of the analysis of the discourse.
Preparedness on the constant professional perfecting.
Readings
- Nikolas Coupland in Adam Jaworski, 2009: The New Sociolinguistics Reader. London: Palgrave.
? Karmen Erjavec idr., 2000: Mi o Romih. Diskriminatorski diskurz v medijih v Sloveniji. Ljubljana: Open Society Institute Slovenia.
- Matejka Grgič, 2016: Jezik: sistem, sredstvo in simbol: identiteta in ideologija med Slovenci v Italiji. Trst: Slovenski raziskovalni inštitut SLORI.
- Nina Perger, 2016: Simbolno nasilje spolnega zaznamovanja v jeziku in prakse upora v visokošolskem prostoru. Družboslovne razprave 32/81. 41-60.
- Krištof Savski, 2017: Monolingualism and prescriptivism: the ecology of
Slovene in the 20th Century. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Taylor & Francis Online. Dostop: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01434632.2017.1320561?journalCode=rmmm20.
- Renata Šribar, 2013: Jezik kot razmerje ospoljene oblasti. Ženske v znanosti, ženske za znanost: Znanstvene perspektive žensk v Sloveniji in dejavniki sprememb. Ur. M. Ule idr. Ljubljana: Založba FDV. 148–161.
- Ruth Wodak idr. (ur.), 2011: The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics. London: SAGE.
- Izbrani prispevki iz revije Journal of Sociolinguistics. Dostop: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9841.
Prerequisits
No prerequisits.
Additional information on implementation and assessment - Participating in discussion. - 25 %
- Oral examination. - 75 %
