SYLLABUS

PART 1: A MULTILINGUAL WORLD

Week 1: Introduction Tuesday, March 31 and Thursday, April 2

Holmes 1 Thursday: Reading Response 1 due (note special topic for this response only; see assignment sheet) Friday and Saturday: Vox California conference, HSSB 6020

Week 2: Choosing Codes Tuesday, April 7 and Thursday, April 9

Holmes 2 ERes: Chen, "Positioning and Repositioning: Linguistic Practices and Identity Negotiation of Overseas Returning Bilinguals in Hong Kong" Tuesday: Reading Response 2 due

Week 3: Language Shift, Loss, and Revitalization Tuesday, April 14 and Thursday, April 16

Holmes 3 ERes: Rindstedt and Aronsson, "Growing Up Monolingual in a Bilingual Community: The Quichua Revitalization Paradox" Tuesday: Reading Response 3 due Tuesday: Video

Week 4: Multilingualism and Language Contact Tuesday, April 21 and Thursday, April 23

Holmes 4 ERes: Garrett: " 'High' Kwéyòl: The Emergence of a Formal Creole Register in St. Lucia" Tuesday: Reading Response 4 due Thursday: Guest lecture, Jung-Eun Janie Lee

PART 2: VARIATION WITHIN LANGUAGES

Week 5: Dialects and Variation Tuesday, April 28 and Thursday, April 30

Holmes 6 ERes: Trudgill, "Acts of Conflicting Identity: The Sociolinguistics of British Pop-Song Pronunciation" Tuesday: Reading Response 5 due Thursday: Field Assignment 1 due

Week 6: From Variation to Change Tuesday, May 5 and Thursday, May 7

Holmes 9 ERes: Tagliamonte and Roberts, "So Weird; So Cool; So Innovative: The Use of Intensifiers in the Television Series Friends" Tuesday: Reading Response 6 due

Week 7: Styles and Registers Tuesday, May 12 and Thursday, May 14

Holmes 10 Podesva, "Phonation Type as a Stylistic Variable: The Use of Falsetto in Constructing a Persona" Tuesday: Reading Response 7 due

Week 8: Language and Social Identities: Gender, Age, Class Tuesday, May 19 and Thursday, May 21

Holmes 7 ERes: Kiesling, "Men's Identities and Sociolinguistic Variation: The Case of Fraternity Men" Tuesday: Reading Response 8 due Friday and Saturday: Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Conference Sunday: LISO Symposium: "The Social-Interactional Lives of Young Children"

PART 3: CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY

Week 9: Language, Race, and Ethnicity Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 28

Holmes 8 ERes: Rampton, "Language and Ethnicity at School: Some Implications from Theoretical Developments in Sociolinguistics" Tuesday: Reading Response 9 due

Week 10: Sociolinguistics as a Tool for Social Justice Tuesday, June 2 and Thursday, June 4

Holmes 15 ERes: Barrett, "Language Ideology and Racial Inequality: Competing Functions of Spanish in an Anglo-Owned Mexican Restaurant" Tuesday: Reading Response 10 due Thursday: Field Assignment 2 due, all extra credit due

Finals Week June 8-12

FINAL EXAM Monday, June 8, 12:00-3:00 p.m., Building 387, Room 101

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