COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÜLSÜM SONGÜL ERCAN

Offered to

Linguistics

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to deal with the relation between language and society within the contexts such as language variety, dialect, accent, pidgin, creole, diglossia, bilungalism, multilingualism, social stratification, class, ethnicity, code-mixing, code-switching, language planning, language reform, ideology, and social power and have the students comprehend the relation said.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   the student is expected to be able to define the basic concepts relating sociolinguistics
2   the student is expected to be able to explain the relation between language and society thoroughly
3   the student is expected to explain data collection methods in sociolinguistics.
4   the student is expected to be able to compare and contrast the relationship between language and social class, ethnicity, social stratification and such.
5   the student is expected to be able to commenting on and criticizing a sociolinguistic research
6   the student is expected to be able to draw conclusions making use of the findings about the relation between language and society

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The relation between language and society. Domains of socioliguistics. The disciplines related to socioliguistics .
2 Language choice in multi lingual societies: Diglossia and Heteroglossia
3 Language choice in multi lingual societies: Code-swithcing and code-mixing
4 Language shift, language loss, and language death
5 Language maintanence and language revival
6 Linguistic variables: vernacular, lingua franca, official language and standard language
7 Mid-term exam
8 Linguistic variables: pidgin and creole languages
9 National language, language reform and language planning
10 Regional and social varieties; Code Theory
11 The relation between language, gender and age
12 Ethnicity and social networks
13 Language change
14 Language variable: Style, context and register
15 Accomodation theory: speech convergence and speech divergence
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Atasoy, I. O., & Ercan, G. S. (2022). Dil ve Toplum: Dillerarası Etkileşim ve ilgili kavramlar (Language and society: Language contact and related concepts). The Journal of Kesit Academy, 8 (31), 565-586.
Atasoy, I. O., & Ercan, G. S. (2023). Türkçe-Bulgarca Bireylerin Düzenek Karıştırımı (Code Mixing in Turkish Bulgarian Bilingual Individuals). Journal of Literature and Humanities, 71, 33-43.
Eckert, P. (2012). Three waves of variation study: The emergence of meaning in the study of sociolinguistic variation. Annual review of Anthropology, 41, 87-100.
Holmes, J. (2008). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. England: Pearson.
Mallinson, C., Childs, B., ve Van Herk, G. (2013). Data Collection in Sociolinguistics. 2nd Edition. Routledge
Mesthrie, R. (Ed.). (2011). The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press.
Meyerhoff, M. (2018). Introducing Sociolinguistics. Routledge.
Wardhaugh, R., & Fuller, J. M. (2015). An introduction to sociolinguistics, Hoboken.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1- Lecture
2- Presentation
3- Question and answer
4- Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes 1-6 will be evaluated with the questions asked in the mid-term and final exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% class attendance is obligatory.
2. Cheating and cheating attempts in the midterm and final exams will be evaluated as 0 (zero).

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

DEÜ Edebiyat Fak. Dilbilim Böl. C Blok Ofis No. 153
Tel.: 3018632
songul.ercan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

wednesday: 12:00-13:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Preparation for midterm exam 1 19 19
Preparing assignments 1 19 19
Final 1 1,5 2
Midterm 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15
LO.2
LO.3555
LO.45555
LO.5555
LO.6

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