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Linguistics at U of T

University of Toronto

LIN 251: Intro to Sociolinguistics

Reading

 

Required Textbook

Available in hard copy and as an e-book through the UofT Bookstore and the UofT Library:
Bell, Allan. 2014. The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN: 978-0-631-22866-0.

Other Required Reading

Additional chapters and journal articles are posted in Quercus. They include:

Coulmas, Florian. 2013. Introduction: notions of language. In Florian Coulmas, ed. Sociolinguistics: The study of speakers' choices. pp. 1-15. Cambridge University Press. 

Kulick, Don & Christopher Stroud. 2010. Code-switching in Gapun: Social and linguistic aspects of language use in a language shifting community. In M. Meyerhoff & E. Schleef (eds.). 201-215. The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader. Routledge.

Ravindranath, Maya & Abigail Cohn. 2014. Can a language with millions of speakers be endangered?. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 7: 64-75.

Roth-Gordon, Jennifer. 2016. From Upstanding Citizen to North American Rapper and Back Again: The Racial Malleability of Poor Male Brazilian Youth. In Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes our Ideas about Race. H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford & Arnetha F. Ball, eds. 51-64. New York: Oxford University Press.

Schembri, Adam & Trevor Johnston. 2014. Sociolinguistic variation and change in sign languages. In Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron and Ceil Lucas (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. pp. 503-522. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wolfram, Walt, Jeffrey Reaser & Charlotte Vaughn. 2008. Operationalizing linguistic gratuity: from principle to practice. Language and Linguistics Compass 2.6: 1109-1134.

Two films

Lerner, Alan Jay, Frederick Loewe, George Cukor, Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, et al. 1998. My Fair Lady. Burbank, Calif: Warner Home Video. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/9767536]

Chen, Katharine and Gray Carper. 2005 Multilingual Hong Kong: A sociolinguistic case study of code-switching. 2005. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/5906921.

Optional Reading

These articles, which will be discussed but you are not required to read, are also posted in Quercus.

Labov, William. 2015. The discovery of the unexpected. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1.1: 7-22.

Swan, Julia. 2016. The Effect of Language Ideologies on the Canadian Shift: Evidence from /æ/ in Vancouver, BC and Seattle, WA. International Journal of Language and Linguistics 3.6.

 

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Updated Sept. 3, 2020.

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