COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 5089 LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND CULTURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÜLSÜM SONGÜL ERCAN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

This course aims at providing information about the relation between language, society and culture, and administer a discussion about the relationship between them and about different cultural and social bases.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define the main terms related with language, society and culture
2   Explain the relation between language, society and culture
3   Make a study on ethnolinguistics and sociolinguistics.
4   Compare the differences between different languages, societies and cultures
5   Evaluate and review a research which states the relationship between language, society and culture
6   Draw a conclusion by the help of the data which is related with the relation between language, society and culture

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The relationship between language and society: Linguistic Varieties
2 Diglossia/Polygossia, Bilungualism/Multilingualism
3 Code Switching and Code Mixing
4 Language Shift, Language Change, Language Maintenance, Language Death, Language Loss
5 Standard, National, Official, Lingua Franca, Language Planning
6 Pidgin Creoles
7 Social Network, Community of Practice, Speech Community, Register
8 Midterm
9 The relationship between language and culture: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
10 The system of colours and kinship: Examples about different cultures and societies, Metaphor, Metonmy
11 Conversational Maxims, Ethnography of speaking
12 Politeness and Face
13 Ethnomethodology
14 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Bonvillain, N. (1997). Language, Culture and Communication. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc.
Chambers, J. K., & Schilling, N. (Eds.). (2013). The handbook of language variation and change (Vol. 129). John Wiley & Sons.
Holmes, J. (2013). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. England: Pearson.
Mallinson, C., Childs, B., ve Van Herk, G. (2013). Data Collection in Sociolinguistics. NY ve London: Routledge
Tannen, D. (2004). Communication Matters: That s Not What I Meant! : The Sociolinguistics of Everyday Conversation. --: Recorded Books.
Trousdale, G. (2010). An introduction to English sociolinguistics. Edinburgh University Press
Trudgill, P. (1985). Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society.Reading: Cox & Wyman Ltd.
Wardhaugh, R. (2010). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation on the subject
2. Narration/debate with examples
3. Question & Answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The evaluation will be made by the articles which are going to be prepared in midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 80% attendance to the courses is compulsory
2. Atttendance to the midterm, assignemts and final exams is going to be taken into consideration in evaluation.
3. Cheating and plagiarism attemps in midterm, assignments and final exams will be graded as "0" (zero)

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

songul.ercan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 18 18
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 3 20 60
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 22 22
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 198

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.555
LO.655

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