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Intro to Sociolinguistics

LIN 251 Syllabus

Course Requirements | Course Description

Week	Lecture Date	Topic	Reading	Homework due before class in Quercus
1	12-Sep	What Are Sociolinguistics?	Bell Ch. 1; Coulmas 2013
MICRO-SOCIOLINGUISTICS
2	19-Sep	Variation in Language	Bell Ch. 7	Survey "About you"
3	26-Sep	Language in Time	Bell Ch. 8	HW A1: Variation across writers
4	3-Oct	Valuing Language	Bell Ch. 10 to p. 278; Roth-Gordon 2016
5	10-Oct	NO LECTURE (Thanksgiving), but, yes, tutorial on Wednesday
6	17-Oct	Styling Language & Identities	Bell Ch. 11 to p. 310	HW A2: Identity construction
7	24-Oct	Variation in other languages	Schembri & Johnston 2014	MIDTERM (26-Oct, online, 55-min. between 9am-6pm)
MACRO-SOCIOLINGUISTICS
8	31-Oct	A Profusion of Languages	Bell Ch. 2	HW A3: Sociolinguistic observations
11/7 reading week (no class or tutorials)
9	14-Nov	Language Shift & Maintenance	Bell Ch. 3 (skip or skim pp. 67-70); Ravindranath & Cohn 2014	HW RR1: Ravi. & Cohn; Research project plan
PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
10	21-Nov	Codes & Choices	Bell Ch. 5; Kulick & Stroud 2010	HW RR2: Kulick & Stroud
11	28-Nov	Giving back	Wolfram, Reaser & Vaughn 2008:1109-1119; 1122-1129
12	5-Dec	Language Birth & Death	Bell Ch. 4	HW A&RR3: Wolfram et al.
12	8-Dec	Make-up Monday Sum up, catch-up & Review
Dec. 12-17		Final assessment (= Research Project) See details in Quercus Draft due Dec. 12 Two peer reviews due Dec. 14 Final version due Dec. 17

Meeting time and place

In Fall 2022, LIN 251 meets on Mondays, 1:10-3:00pm, in Sid Smith 2127 [map].

Additionally, you must enroll in and attend one of these tutorials:

TUT 0101 Wednesday 9:10-10:00 SS 2111 [map] TA Lex

TUT 0201 Wednesday 4:10-5:00 WI 523 [map] TA Lex

Course website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/ngn/LIN/courses/LIN251/LIN251.22F.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.

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