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Subject code : 64023033
Key concepts in sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics vs. sociology of language; The origins of sociolinguistics; Language variation; Some instances of variation; Diachronic variation; Speech community; Standard English and World Englishes; Carrying out sociolinguistic research.
Some variables in sociolinguistics: Style, Register and Gener, Speech accommodation.
Bilingualism; Code choice: Code-switching and Code-mixing; Diglossia; Multilingualism, Language contact; Pidginisation and creolisation: Hawaiian Creole English, Jamaican Patwa (or Patois); Tok Pisin; Decreolisation; The use of pidgins and creoles in education.
Bilingual education; Language policy; Language planning; Minority languages; Language shift in minority languages; Some particular sociolinguistic situations: India, New Zealand, Cameroon, The Canadian experience; European Union language planning and policy; The role of English; The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights.
Sociolinguistics and language teaching/learning; Communicative competence in language teaching/learning; Sociolinguistic perspectives on language use in immersion classrooms; Analysis of the EFL classroom language; Implications for language teaching; Sociolinguistics and the Law; Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics.