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  • Course Description

    This course offers an introduction to the study of the relationship between language and society. It will cover topics such as: language variation according to social class, ethnicity, age, gender, regional origins and educational background. It also focuses on language interaction and issues of identity and ideology, multilingualism, language policy as well as language shoft and death.

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    Lecturer: Dr. Abla AHMED KADI 

    Email: a.ahmedkadi@univ-djelfa.dz 

    Faculty: Letters, Languages and Arts

    Department: English 

    Course Title: Sociolinguistics

    Target Audience: Master 1

    Time: Monday 10:00-11:30 -- 11:30-13:00

    Credit: 4

    Coefficient : 2

    Amphi: B

    Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday from 8:30 to 14:00

    • Course Objectives

      By the end of the course, students are expected to meet the following learning objectives:

      1. To familiarise students with the basic principles, concepts and methods of sociolinguistics, ranging from wider macro-social phenomena to micro-level analyses of face-to-face interaction 
      2. To provide students with an understanding of the social dimension of language and its implications for applied areas including language education and linguistic policy 
      3. To develop an awareness of the different varieties of language and the extra linguistic factors that determine language use
      4. To explore the types of linguistic variation within society, and the causes and effects of linguistic change 

      • Lecture 1: Introduction to Sociolinguistics

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        Lecture 2: Micro and Macro Sociolinguistics

      • Lecture 3: Variationist Sociolinguistics

      • Lecture 4: Language Varieties

      • Lecture 5: Varieties in Contact

      • Lecture 6: Age and Gender

      • Lecture 7: Speech Function, Politeness and Cross Cultural Communication