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HUM199
H1 - Language and the Internet
The
Internet is changing language. But how? Two widespread popular mythologies
prevail: 1) that the Internet is
bad for the future of language, that technospeak will rule, standards be
lost, and creativity diminished as globalization imposes sameness, and 2) that
young
people, the most prolific users of new media, are a major contributor to
the
general decline of language leading to the “linguistic ruin” of
this generation. However, linguists argue for the reverse: that the Internet
is in fact enabling a dramatic expansion in the range and variety of language
as well as providing unprecedented opportunities for personal creativity.
This
course will provide a venue for students to explore these issues, not simply
through review and discussion, but by studying Internet language in all
its guises via hands-on data collection and analysis.
LIN456/1156 H1
-
Language Variation and Change: Theory and Analysis (formerly LIN356H1)
The
theory and practice of sociolinguistics. The inter-relationship between language
and society from the perspective of collecting, organizing, and
analyzing patterns in natural speech data, including field methods
and quantitative methods
for correlating linguistic and social variables.
Prerequisite: LIN351H1/ LIN256H1
Exclusion: LIN356H1
LIN495 Y1
- Individual Projects
Supervision of advanced individual undergraduate
research projects in sociolinguistics.
LIN1256
H - Advanced Language Variation and Change
An advanced seminar in language variation and change, based on reading and
analyzing current
literature in the field.