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Penelope Eckert | Course Requirements | Bibliography | Useful Links |
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LSA 068 Sociolinguistic Variation Mon & Thu 1:30-3:15 Office: Hale 344 (but you won't find me there) Office Hours: After class in the Library cafe, or by appointment |
| Linguistic variability is a fundamentally important mode of social expression, carrying information about such things as the speaker's identity, emotions, and stance. It is also an essential mechanism for linguistic change, structuring the gradual transition from old to innovative forms. Finally, variability emerges from cognitive and articulatory processes in the course of speech production and perception. This course will present an approach to variation that brings these factors together, but will focus particularly on the role of variation in social practice. | A short Institute course cannot provide the depth of reading that one needs for an introductory course. Required readings for this course have been selected as illustrative but certainly not comprehensive, and greater depth will be provided by references in the class slides. It is intended that students will complete assignments by Monday's class on the week for which they are listed. Links to required readings are on the syllabus. The bibliography page contains full references to these readings and to all other sources discussed in class. |
| Note that Will Styler has made a sound file of Honey Badger available. and here's a text grid to go with it. Click here to get to the sound files and text grids for the narrative assignment. |
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