Course Description
This subject describes the relationship between language, society, and history of language, especially English language in shaping new language communities and repertoires. This addresses language change, linguistic developments, language and socio-political history, urbanization, industrialization, social stratification, social dialect, register, code switching, code mixing, regional dialect, bilingualism/multilingualism, language variation, language shift and maintenance, and other language functions as individual or social identity as well as a means of inter-ethnic communication. To strengthen the understanding of concepts, local, national, regional, and international contexts are employed to accommodate the social practice of the language in question. The teaching-learning activities are conducted through presentation, discussion, question-answer, and assignment.
Program Objectives (PO)
- Being able to demonstrate academic ethics in writing an academic paper in the areas of sociolinguistics.
- Being able to apply concepts and theories of sociolinguistics in shaping new language communities and repertoires.
- Being able to communicate with various interlocutors in different contexts by applying sociolinguistic parameters.
- Being able to make an academic paper on a particular topic using sociolinguistic parameters of a chosen language.