Sociolinguistics
3 Undergraduate Credits
A study of the influence of social structures on the variations in the way people speak, including psychological attitudes and individual speech styles, the logic of non-standard English, the politics of power and the politics of speaking, and sociolinguistic factors in the history of African-American dialects. Prerequisite: (ENGL 101 or 103) AND (ENGL 102 or 104) AND ( 1 of WLIT 203, 204, 205, 206)
A study of the influence of social structures on the variations in the way people speak, including psychological attitudes and individual speech styles, the logic of non-standard English, the politics of power and the politics of speaking, and sociolinguistic factors in the history of African-American dialects. Prerequisite: (ENGL 101 or 103) AND (ENGL 102 or 104) AND ( 1 of WLIT 203, 204, 205, 206)