104年第2學期-5098 社會語言學概論 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Class participation	20	The student is expected to write commentaries for the weekly course readings. Commentaries should discuss one issue either discussed in the reading or related to the student’s own research.
Student-led discussion	40	The student is expected to present the week’s readings and lead in-class discussion. Each week the student will be allotted a total 60 minutes for presentation and 30 minutes for class discussion.
Mini-research project	40	The student will write a research project specifying how sociolinguistics illuminates a research topic of interest to you.

教育目標

1. Identify research questions appropriate to the discipline of sociolinguistics and explain why they are important, i.e., how answering them could contribute to an understanding of the nature of human language. 2. Practice some of the methods that sociolinguists use to collect and analyze data. 3. Critically read and evaluate published research in sociolinguistics. 4. Apply knowledge gained from prior research in sociolinguistics to propose an original research project.

課程概述

Sociolinguists are broadly concerned with examining how our understanding of language can be informed through a consideration of the social contexts in which language is produced and interpreted. In this course we will discuss several of the topics that sociolinguists have studied, including code-switching, language and power, translation, the relationships between gender and identity, language in the Internet, performance and community, and the connections of these issues to ideologies about language. We will also examine and practice some of the methods for collecting and analyzing data that researchers have used. Throughout, we will also consider how the knowledge gained through this research can inform other academic disciplines, professional life, and public discourse more generally.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：0-3
上課時間：五/2,3,4[LAN212-1]
修課班級：外英語碩1,2
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：

參考書目

Ahearn, Laura. 2011. The Socially Charged Life of Language: Living Language. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Additional book chapters and articles will be distributed in class and are required as listed in the readings below.