ENG-532 SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

SOCIOLINGUISTICS
MIDTERM
Core text: Sociolinguistics – R. A. Hudson – Chapters 1 & 2
1. The scope and utility of sociolinguistics
2. Speech communities and language diversity
3. The sociolinguistic development of a child
4. Essential sociolinguistic concepts
a) Language
b) Standard Language
c) Dialect
d) Idiolect
e) Register
f) Diglossia
g) Code Switching
h) Borrowing
i) Pidgins
j) Creoles

Core text: Sociolinguistics – R. A. Hudson – Chapter 3

5. Language and Thought
6. Influence of culture on language and vice versa
7. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Core text: Sociolinguistics – Peter Trudgill – Chapters 2; 3 & 4

8. Language and social class
9. Language and ethnic group
10. Language and gender
11. Effect of Pakistani Culture on ELT

Core Text
1. Trudgill, Peter Sociolinguistics
2. Hudson, R.A Sociolinguistics
3. Aitchison, Jean The Articulate Mammal
4. McDonough, H. S. Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching