Social variation, språkkontakt och språklig makt i engelskan

In the course students will identify different factors explaining language use, variation and change, analyse interaction using sociolinguistic terminology, discuss the notions of language maintenance and death, analyse the effects of globalization and language contact involving English, discuss power relationships and their effect on language use, analyse how language policy and planning affect the use of English in the world, and apply methods of sociolinguistic analysis (such as, ethnography and variationist sociolinguistics) to instances of English language use.