Naomi Nagy
homepage

Linguistics at U of T

Intro to Sociolinguistics

LIN 251 Syllabus (Winter 2018)

Course Requirements | Course Description

Week

Date

Topic

Reading
(Read for THIS WEEK's class)

Homework
(due via Blackboard before class on Wednesday)

1

10-Jan

What Are Sociolinguistics?

Bell Ch. 1; Coulmas 2013

 

MICRO-SOCIOLINGUISTICS

2

17-Jan

Variation in Language

Bell Ch. 7

Bb survey

3

24-Jan

Language in Time

Bell Ch. 8

Analysis 1: Variation across writers

4

31-Jan

Valuing Language

Bell Ch. 10 to p. 278; 

Roth-Gordon 2016

5

07-Feb

Styling Language & Identities

Bell Ch. 11 to p. 310

Analysis 2: Identity construction

6

14-Feb

Variation in other languages

Schembri & Johnston 2014

MIDTERM (Feb. 12, in tut)

2/19-23 Reading Week (no class or tutorials)

 MACRO-SOCIOLINGUISTICS

7

28-Feb

A Profusion of Languages

Bell Ch. 2

Analysis 3: Sociolinguistic observations

8

07-Mar

Language Shift & Maintenance
Guest speaker Maya Ravindranath

Bell Ch. 3 (skip/skim 67-70); Ravindranath & Cohn 2014

Reading Response 1: Ravindranath & Cohn

9

14-Mar

Language Birth & Death

Bell Ch. 4

10

21-Mar

Codes & Choices
in-class assignment
Guest speaker Robin Nemesszegy

Bell Ch. 5; Kulick & Stroud 2010

Reading Response 2: Kulick & Stroud

11

28-Mar

Giving back

Wolfram, Reaser & Vaughn 2008:1109-1119; 1122-1129

Analysis 4: Variation across journals

 PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER

12

04-Apr

 Sum up & Review

 

Response & Analysis 3: Wolfram et al.

EXAM
April 12, 9-11am,
in Galbraith (GB) 303 & 304

Review session TBA (after classes)

 

Course website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/ngn/LIN/courses/LIN251/LIN251.18W.syll.htm

Course requirements: http://individual.utoronto.ca/ngn/LIN/courses/LIN251/LIN251.requirements.htm

Prerequisite: LIN 101 and LIN 102 (or LIN 100). This prerequisite is essential to provide the background material in linguistic theory that you will need for this class. In particular, you should review phonology, phonetics, and the International Phonetic alphabet.

Updated Feb. 28, 2018

Return to the Course Description for LIN 251 | Go to Blackboard to find other resources for this class.

email: naomi dot nagy at utoronto dot ca | Return to my home page