The course aims at providing students with a basic knowledge of methods, tools and approaches characterizing sociolinguistics, taking also into account the epistemological problems concerning its adjacency to other branches of linguistic and social knowledge. At the end of the course, students will write an essay showing their competence in gathering data and analyzing them in sociolinguistic perspective.
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Additional material will be provided during the course.
Programme
This is an introductive course to sociolinguistics. The epistemological setting of this branch of knowledge will be discussed, and its basic elements and tools will be introduced. Specific attention will be paid to two major sociolinguistic approaches, i.e. correlational and interactional sociolinguistics.Core Documentation
Berruto, G. – M. Cerruti, (2015), Manuale di sociolinguistica, Torino, UTETAdditional material will be provided during the course.
Reference Bibliography
IEG: Fiorentino, G. (2013), Frontiere della scrittura, Roma, Carocci, 23-114. SCCA: Gumperz, J. J. (2003), Il sapere socioculturale nell'interferenza conversazionale, in Giannini, S. - S. Scaglione, Introduzione alla sociolinguistica, Roma, Carocci, 155-179. Auer, P. (2003), La pragmatica della commutazione di codice: un approccio sequenziale, in Giannini, S. - S. Scaglione, Introduzione alla sociolinguistica, Roma, Carocci, 181-204. Breton, R. (2003), Le dinamiche delle comunità etnolinguistiche come fattore centrale della politica e nella pianificazione linguistica, in Giannini, S. - S. Scaglione, Introduzione alla sociolinguistica, Roma, Carocci, 209-227.IType of evaluation
Written part: essays on a topic decided together with the professor (about 30000 characters). Oral part: two questions on further parts of the exam program.