Graduate Class - Thursdays 1050 to 1220

The purpose of this course is to develop students' awareness of sociolinguistic issues and their relation to language change.

The topics covered are:
1: The place of accents and dialects
2: Variations: age, class and gender
3: The role of education and the media
4: Language contact and conflict
5: Global changes in varieties of English

Among the books being used are:

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