FALL 2008 MEETING TIME AND LOCATION
South Hall 3431D, TR 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
Sociocultural linguistics is a term used at UCSB (and increasingly other places) for a broad coalition of theories and methods for the study of language in its sociocultural context, a coalition that in the past, and sometimes still today, has been called sociolinguistics. The field draws on (the narrower sense of) sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, socially oriented discourse analysis, pragmatics, language and social psychology, applied linguistics, and other fields, as well as a wide range of social theories. This class is an introduction to key concepts and approaches in sociocultural linguistics, with a particular focus on contemporary scholarship that takes a broad approach to language, culture, and society. It will also examine current issues that are influential in more than one part of the field. Students will master course concepts by applying them to their own data sets. The course provides students with theoretical knowledge, analytic skills, and professional socialization that will prepare them to pursue original research in sociocultural linguistics.
This course counts toward the LISO (Language, Interaction, and Social Organization) interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis. It also counts toward the interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis in Applied Linguistics.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in linguistics, education, sociology, psychology, anthropology, modern languages, or related field.