Linguistic Situations and Communicative Situations - Einzelansicht

In this course, students will be acquainted with two central concepts of sociolinguistics and pragmatics: the concept of a "linguistic situation" and the concept of a "communicative situation." The former relates language(s) to broader social factors in a given unit and touches upon a number of fields of sociolinguistic investigation (e.g., bi- and multilingualism, contact languages, language policy and language planning, language and culture, language attitudes, language and ethnicity/identity). In turn, the concept of a communicative situation applies to actual linguistic encounters. It is constituted by numerous interrelated variables, as, inter alia, the type of communicative situation, the social organizations, the location, and the participants.

One in-class group presentation (50 % of the final grade) and a final written quiz (50%)