Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Autumn Quarter 2009
• Winter Quarter 2010

Betsy E Evans
LING 533
Seattle Campus

Topics and Methods in Sociolinguistic Theory

Study of urban dialects and contact-induced change. Language attitudes and syntactic variation. Field methods used in socially oriented studies of language variation and change. Sampling and interview design. Discussion of issues related to recording, ethics, and analysis of large bodies of data. Prerequisite: LING 432.

Class description

This course is also known as Sociolinguistics II. It aims to do two things: to continue to build familiarity with the classic literature in sociolinguistics from a Labovian (variationist)-style investigation of language variation and change and to discuss how the objects of sociolinguistic research and sociolinguistic theory have an impact on data collection and analysis.

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