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JHHSU
SOCIOLINGUISTICS: an
introductory course 2003-2004
Course
Objectives
[1]
To familiarize students with studies on the covariance and
relationship between language and society, and with the methodology
employed in the studies.
[2]
To enable students to attain a reliable and insightful description
of patterns of social organization in language use and behavior toward
language.
[3]
To help students to acquire skills to use sociolinguistic approach
and methods to conduct studies and research.
Class
Procedures
There will be assigned and recommended readings, lectures, class
discussions, and student presentations. Students are required to write a
term paper of not less than fifteen pages. Grades will be based on class
performance, term paper and final exam.
Course
Topics (Related articles from
current journals may also be assigned as supplements)
(1)
What is sociolinguistics?
*Holmes,
An
Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Chapter one, pp. 1-17
*Trudgill,
"Sociolinguistics: language and society," in Sociolinguistics.
Fishman,
"The Sociology of Language," in Language
and Social Context.
Hudson,
"Introduction," in Sociolinguistics,
pp. 1-7, 12-20
(2)
Do you live in a multilingual or monolingual society?
What are the language varieties and how do you determine them?
*Wardhaugh,
"Language, Dialects, and Varieties," pp. 22-51
*Fasold,
"Qualitative formulas", in The
Sociolinguistics of Society, pp. 61-78
Trudgill,
"Language and Social Class," Sociolinguistics.
Guy,
"Language and Social Class," in Language:
the Socio-cultural Context
Hudson,
"Varieties of language," in Sociolinguistics,
pp. 21-44
Which
language variety do you choose when you speak?
What are the approaches or theories you can use to predict the
variety you may use?
*Holmes,
"Language choice in multilingual communities", 21-52
*Fasold,
"Language choice," in The Sociolinguistics of
society.
*Gumperz,
"Social Meaning in Linguistic Structures: Code-Switching in
Norway," in Language
in Social Group, pp.274-305
*Fasold,
“Language maintenance and shift,” in
Sociolinguistics of society.
*Vélez,
“Understanding Spanish-language maintenance in Puerto Rico: political
will meets the demographic imperative,” in IJSL.
142 (2000), PP. 5-24
Lawson
and Sachdev, “Codeswitching in Tunisia: Attitudinal and behavioral
dimensions,” in Journal of Pragmatics 32 (2000) 1343-1361
Gross,
“Intentionality and the markedness model in literary Codeswitching,”
in Journal of Pragmatics 32 (2000) 1283-1303
Watts,
Richard. "Language, dialect and national identity in
Switzerland," Multilingua
7-3 (1988) 313-334.
Bell,
"Code-Switching - Bilingualism and Diglossia," Sociolinguistics
(4)
What is the sociocultural significance of the various speech
styles?
*Holmes,
"Style, context and register", pp. 245-283
*Fasold,
"Address forms," in Sociolinguistics
of language
*Huspek,
Michael, "Linguistic variation, context, and meaning: A case of ing/in'
variation in North American workers' speech," in Languge
in Society (86)
*Labov,
Chapter 2, (r) Sociolinguistic Patterns. Pp.43-69
Brown-Ford,
"Address in American English," Journal
of Abnormal and Social
Psychology
62(1961): 375-85.
Brown-Gilman,
"The pronouns of power and solidarity," in Giglioli
Ervin-Tripp,
"An analysis of interaction of language topic and listerner," in
Language
acquisisition & communicative choice
Fischer,
"Social influence in the choice of a linguistic variant [ing/in],"
in Hymes (64)
(5)
How do men and women speak differently?
*Holmes,
"Sex, politeness and stereotypes," pp. 312-340
*Fasold,
"Language and Sex," in Sociolinguistics
of language.
McConnell-Ginet,
"Language and gender," Language:
the Socio-cultural Context
Wardhaugh,
"Language and sex,” pp. 312-323
Herbert,
"Sex-based difference in compliment behavior," Language
in Society.
Vol 19,
No.2, June 1990.
Trudgill,
"Language and Sex," Sociolinguistics.
(6)
What are some sociocultural factors that trigger off linguistic
changes?
*Wardhaugh,
"Language change", pp. 192-216
*Holmes,
"Language change", pp. 210-229
Hoijer,
"Linguistic and cultural change," in Hymes (64)
Peňalosa,
"Social and linguistic change," in
Introduction to the Sociology
of Language
Labov,
"On the Mechanism of Linguistic Change," in Directions,
pp. 512ff
(7)
Language Attitudes
*Fasold,
"Language attitudes," in Sociolinguistics
of society.
*Hidalgo,
Margarita, "Language contact, language loyalty, and language
prejudice on Mexican border," Language
in Society, 15,
193-220
*Lambert,
"Evaluational Reactions to Spoken Languages," in Language,
Psychology,
and Culture.
Labov,
"The logic of nonstandard English", in Giglioli
Hsu,
"A Sociolinguistic Survey of Language Attitudes in the Taipei
Area."
Hudson,
"Linguistic and Social Inequality“, in Sociolinguistics
(8)
Discourse Analysis:
*Fasold,
"Discourse," in Sociolinguistics of language.
*Schiffrin,
"Conversation analysis," Language:
the Socio-cultural Context
*Tyler-Jefferies-Davies,
"The effect of discourse structuring devices on listener
perceptions of coherence in non-native university teacher's spoken
discourse",
World Englishes,
Vol. 7, No2, pp. 101-110, 1988.
West,
Lazar & Kramarae, "Gender in Discourse", in Discourse
as Social Interaction.
Chang
Hui-Ching, "The 'well-defined' is 'ambiguous' - Indeterminacy in
Chinese conversation. Journal of
Pragmatics, 31 (1999) 535-556
Coulthard,
Chapter. 4, in An Introduction to Discourse
Analysis
Williams,
"Conversation Analysis," in Sociolinguistics:
a sociological critique.
Schiffrin,
“Definitions of discourse”, Approaches
to Discourse.
John
Gumperz, Discourse Strategies
Blakemore,
"The organization of discourse," Language:
the Socio-cultural Context
Ron
Scollon, "Cumulative Ambiguity: Adversative Conjunctions in Chinese-
English Intercultural Communication." 1989
Brown-Yule,
Discourse
Analysis
(9)
Language Policy and Language Planning
*Fasold,
"Language planning and standardization," in Sociolinguistics of society.
*Wardhaugh,
"Language planning," pp.346ff
*Christian,
"Language planning: the view from linguistics," Language:
the Socio-cultural
Context
Holmes,
"National languages and language planning," pp.103ff
Bell,
"Language planning - communities and policies."
Rubin-Jernudd.
"Towards a theory of language planning."
Penalosa,
"Language policy and language conflict," in Introduction
to the Sociology of Language.
Optional
topic: What
is the relationship between language and culture?
*Fishman, "The Whorfian hypothesis: varieties of valuation,
confirmation and disconfirmation," 26 (IJSL) pp. 25-40
*Wardhaugh,
"Language and Culture," pp. 217-138
*Rosch,
"Linguistic Relativity,” NOTES #31.
Hill,
"Language, culture, and world view," Language: the
Socio-cultural Context
Lee,
“Language in Thinking and Learning: Pedagogy and the New Whorfian
Framework.” Harvard Educational
Review, Vol.67, No.3, Fall 1997.
Moerman,
M. "Nature and Culture," in Talking
Culture: Ethonography and Conversation
Analysis.
Hoijer,
"The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis," in Language
and Culture
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