This 16-week plan outlines the topics to be covered for a Sociolinguistics course at Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology Rahim Yar Khan. Over the semester, students will learn about key concepts in sociolinguistics including language variation related to region, social group and style, code-switching, multilingualism, the relationship between language and culture, and linguistic relativity theory. The final week focuses on concepts related to politeness theory including face and power in language.
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16 Week Plan of SOCIO-LINGUISTICS ENGL-3116 BS English 5th Semester (1)
This 16-week plan outlines the topics to be covered for a Sociolinguistics course at Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology Rahim Yar Khan. Over the semester, students will learn about key concepts in sociolinguistics including language variation related to region, social group and style, code-switching, multilingualism, the relationship between language and culture, and linguistic relativity theory. The final week focuses on concepts related to politeness theory including face and power in language.
This 16-week plan outlines the topics to be covered for a Sociolinguistics course at Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology Rahim Yar Khan. Over the semester, students will learn about key concepts in sociolinguistics including language variation related to region, social group and style, code-switching, multilingualism, the relationship between language and culture, and linguistic relativity theory. The final week focuses on concepts related to politeness theory including face and power in language.
16 weeks plan of BS English 5thSemester SOCIO-LINGUISTICS ENGL-3116 Time Course Content period Week 1 Introduction to Sociolinguistics Week 2 Sociology of language Week 3 Languages, dialects, and varieties Week 4 Regional dialects, Social dialects
Week 5 Styles, register, beliefs
Week 6 Speech community
Intersecting communities Week 7 Code& Code switching Week 8 Lingua franca, Diglossia Week 9 Pidgin &Creole Week 10 Bilingualism and multilingualism Week 11 Borrowing Week 12 Language& culture Week 13 Language and thought Week 14 Semanticrelativity: Prototypes & Basic level concepts Week 15 Sapir and Whorf: Linguistic relativity theory Week 16 Face, Positive and negative face &Power