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Sociolinguistics - OENAA1731Z
Title: Sociolinguistics
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2019
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)
The course sets out to introduce students to a range of social and regional varieties of modern English. It also refers to the historical development of English and its impact on the current language. The main concepts discussed include language planning, bilingualism, multilingualism, diglossia, language change and other. The focus is on detailed analysis of authentic texts and recordings that are used to illustrate the discussed phenomena.
Descriptors
Last update: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D. (25.09.2020)

Distance learning will be taking place online, essentially in the form of interactive communication and via seminars and consultations in MS Teams. Study materials will be provided electronically via the aforementioned channels. E-mail communication will also be used in support of the previously mentioned forms.

Literature -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)
CHAMBERS, J., TRUDGILL, P. Dialectology. London: Cambridge University Press,
1997

COUPLAND, N., JAWORSKI, A. Sociolinguistics, A Reader and Coursebook. Houndmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press, 1997 (selected chapters)

CRYSTAL, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995

ECKERT, P., RICKFORD, J. R. Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 (selected chapters)

FASOLD, R. The Sociolinguistics of Society. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995 (selected chapters)

HOLMES, J. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 2nd edition. Harlow: Longman, 2001 (selected chapters)

HUDSON, R.A. Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

MCKAY, S.L., HORNBERGER, N.H. (Eds.) Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996

TANNEN, D. You Just Don´t Understand. London: Virago, 1990

Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)

Semestral work whose topic is announced the first week of semester

 
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