DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Course Title: Sociolinguistics Credit Hours: 03

BS Part: III
5TH Semester

Mid-Term Outline
Date: 30th-03-2023 (Thursday)
Paper Format: Objective & Subjective (short notes)

➢ Sociolinguistics (Scope and Importance)

➢ Macro sociolinguistics and Micro sociolinguistics
➢ Major contributors in the field of Sociolinguistics
• William Labov
• Peter Trudgill
• Joshua Fishman
• Dell Hymes
➢ Conformity and Individualism
➢ Dialect, Register & Style
➢ British VS American English
➢ Diglossia
➢ Pidgin and Creole (Decreolization and Post-creole continuum)
➢ Key Terms in Sociolinguistics (as discussed in class)