LECTURE (Tuesdays)

HOMEWORK

TUTORIAL (Thursdays)

Week

Date

Topic

Reading

(Understanding Sociolinguistics)

Due Wednesdays before midnight in the week listed

Date

Topic

Reading

(Doing Sociolinguistics)

1

Jan. 7

Introduction & Objectives

Ch. 1

no tutorial in Week 1

2

Jan. 14

Variables; ELAN

[waitlist closes]

Ch. 2,

Irwin & Nagy 2007

Quick survey

Jan. 16

Variables, envelop of variation, review IPA

Ch 2

Jan. 19

Last day to add S courses

3

Jan. 21

Place

Define variables & prep ELAN

Jan. 23

Coding & indices

Ch 2

4

Jan. 28

Style

Ch. 3

Code dep. var

Jan. 30

Ethics in fieldwork;

Ch 3, Ch 4

Sampling

5

Feb. 4

Attitudes; Ethics

Ch. 4

Code indep. lx. vars

Feb. 6

Distributional analysis

Ch 11

6

Feb. 11

Change

Ch. 7

Code indep. soc. vars & export

Feb. 13

Distributional analysis

Ch 12

to p. 127

Reading Week Feb. 17-21

7

Feb. 25

Class

Ch. 8

Ch 1 Ex 4, Ch 12 Ex 1

Feb. 27

Identifying patterns;

Presenting data

Ch 13

8

Mar. 4

Networks

Ch. 9

Distributional analysis 1

Mar. 6

Design IV module

Mar. 10

 Last day to drop S courses

9

Mar. 11

Gender

Ch. 10

Create IV module

Mar. 13

Significance;

Ch 12

to p. 246

interpreting MEMs

from p. 128

10

Mar. 18

Gender

Ch. 10

Distributional analysis 2

Mar. 20

Design a research project

Ch 1

from p. 246

11

Mar. 25

Language contact

Ch. 11

Conduct short IV & transcribe

Mar. 27

Recording & transcribing

Ch 10

12

Apr. 1

conduct MEMs;

What next?

Ch. 12

Apr. 3

Multiple variables;

Comparative analysis

Ch 14

TBD

Final exam: (Exam Period is April 9-30; Naomi is out of the country April 4-11; UofT closed April 18)