SP 303 - Sociolinguistics

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: SP 103 , SP 205 . Restricted to majors. The field of sociolinguistics deals with the ways in which language serves to define and maintain group identity and social relationships among speakers. Students learn to describe relationships between language and society, including regional and social variation and gender differences. Language variations are compared through the lens of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.