The Social Uses of Language
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Course information |
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Title |
The Social Uses of Language |
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Lecturer |
Barát Erzsébet |
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Course code |
YSE_BTK_011-00970
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Credit |
4 |
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Location |
Kristó Terem |
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Time |
Wednesday 4-6 pm |
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Course description |
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Short description |
This lecture course covers the following topics: geographic, social and style variation in English; the English spoken by native speakers vs. nonnative speakers (including English as a lingua franca); language policy and planning (the spread of English, the European Union); forensic linguistics; pragmatics (its scope and methods); cross-cultural, intercultural and interlanguage pragmatics; linguistic politeness; conversation analysis; talk in institutional contexts; language, ideology and power; language use and identity; the interdisciplinary concept of discourse.
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Schedule |
pragmatics (MS)
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Semester |
FALL |
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Requirements |
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Requirements to get the grade |
90 minute written exam with 3 essay questions on topics covered in the lectures. |
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Reading list |
Regional, Social and Stylistic variation (2 lectures) (FA) Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. Regional dialectology. In: Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Andrea Deumert, and William. L. Leap, eds. Introducing sociolinguistics. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 44-75. Mesthrie, Rajend. 2000. Social dialectology. In: Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Andrea Deumert, and William. L. Leap, eds. Introducing sociolinguistics. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 76-112. BI- AND MULTILINGUALISM (FA) Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2006. Multilingualism and language choice. In: Miriam Meyerhoff, Introducing sociolinguistics. London: Routledge, 102-126. Edwards, John. 2004. Foundations of bilingualism. In: Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie, eds. The handbook of bilingualism. Oxford: Blackwell, 7-31. Cross-cultural, Intercultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics (MS) Pavlidou, Theodosia-Soula, 2000. Telephone Conversations in Greek and German: Attending to the Relationship Aspect of Communication. In: Helen Spencer-Oatey (ed), Culturally Speaking. Managing rapport through talk across cultures. London: Continuum: 121 – 141. Günther, Susanne, 2000. Argumentation and Resulting Problems in the Negotiation of Rapport in a German-Chinese Conversation. In: Helen Spencer-Oatey (ed), Culturally Speaking. Managing rapport through talk across cultures. London: Continuum: 217 – 240. LINGUISTIC (IM)POLITENESS (MS) Kádár, Dániel Z., Mochael Haugh, 2013, Understanding Politeness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 1-103. Spencer-Oatey, Helen, 2008. Face, (Im)Politeness and Rapport, In: Helen Spencer-Oatey (ed), Culturally Speaking. Culture, Communication and Politeness Theory. London: Continuum: 11-46. Bousfield, Derek and Miriam A. Locher (eds), 2008. Impoliteness in Language. Studies on its Interplay with Power in Theory and Practice. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Chapter 2: 17-44. CONVERSATION ANALYSIS IN PRIVATE & INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS (MS) Hutchby, Ian and Robin Wooffitt, 1998. Foundations of Conversation Analysis. In: Ian Hutchby and Robin Wooffitt, Conversation Analysis. Cambridge: Polity Press. 38 – 69. Raymond, Geoffrey, 2006. Questions at Work: Yes/No Type Interrogatives in Institutional Contexts. In: Drew, Paul, Geoffrey Raymond, and Darin Weinberg, Talk and Interaction in Social Research Methods. London: Sage Publications. 115 – 135. THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONCEPT OF DISCOURSE (BE) Gee, James Paul: Chapter 2. Discourses and Social Languages; Chapter 3. Situated Meanings and Cultural Models. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Routledge, 1999, 11-39; 40-57. LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY, AND POWER (BE) Thompson, Denise: Chapter 2. Ideology: Justifying Domination. Radical Feminism Today. Sage, 2001, 22-35. Butler, Judith: Chapter 4: Implicit Censorship and Discursive Agency. Excitable speech: A Politics of the Performative. Routledge, 1997, 127-163.
LANGUAGE USE AND IDENTITY (BE) Bucholtz Mary and Hall, Kira: Language and Identity. Alessandro Duranti (ed.) A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Blackwell, 2004, 368-388. NATIVE AND NONNATIVE ENGLISH (DP) Davies, Alan. 2004. The native speaker in applied linguistics. In: Davies, Alan & Catherine Elder (Eds.), The handbook of applied linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 431-450. Hall, Joan Kelly, An Cheng, and Matthew T. Carlson. 2006. Reconceptualizing multicompetence as a theory of language knowledge. Applied linguistics 27/2: 220-240. ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA (DP) House, Juliane. 2008. English as a lingua franca in Europe today. In Extra, Guus and Durk Gorter (eds.). Multilingual Europe: Facts and policies, (pp. 63-85). Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin. IDEOLOGY AND POWER IN TRANSLATION (LM) Baker, Mona 2007. Reframing Conflict in Translation. Social Semiotics (17)/2 151-169. Schäffner, Christina 2007. Politics and Translation. In. P. Kuhiwtzak and K. Littau (Eds). A Companion to Translation Studies. (pp. 134-147). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF LITERACY (LM) Perry, Kristen H. 2011. What is literacy? – A Critical Overview of Sociocultural Perspectives. Journal of Language and Literacy Education (8)/1 50-71. Street, Brain V. and Besnier, Niko. 1994. Aspects of Literacy. in: Ingold, Tim (ed) Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology. (pp. 527-562). London and New York: Routledge
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Suggested reading list |
Regional, Social and Stylistic variation (2 lectures) (FA) Chambers, J.K., Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes, eds. 2002. The handbook of language variation and change. Oxford: Blackwell; from Part 3: Social Factors, sections Time and Social differences, pp. 307-472. Labov, William. 1972. The social stratification of (r) in New York City department stores. In: Labov, William. Sociolinguistic patterns. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 43-70. Trudgill, Peter. 1983. Acts of conflicting identity: The sociolinguistics of British pop-song pronunciation. In: Trudgill, Peter. On dialect: Social and geographical perspectives. New York: New York University Press, 141-160. Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. 1998. Why do languages have dialects? In: Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. American English: Dialects and variation. Oxford: Blackwell, 24-56. BI- AND MULTILINGUALISM (FA) Grosjean, Francois. 1982. Life with two languages: An introduction to bilingualism. Boston: University of Harvard Press. Grosjean, Francois. 2008. Studying bilinguals. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Cross-cultural, Intercultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics (MS) Blum-Kulka, Shoshana, Juliane House, and Gabriele Kasper (eds), 1989. Cross-cultural pragmatics: Requests and apologies. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Kasper, Gabriele, 2000. Data Collection in Pragmatic Research. In: Helen Spencer-Oatey (ed), Culturally Speaking. Managing rapport through talk across cultures. London: Continuum: 316 - 342. Wierzbicka, Anna, 2003. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The semantics of human interaction. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Žegarac, Vladimir and Martha C. Pennington, 2000. Pragmatic Transfer in Intercultural Communication. In: Helen Spencer-Oatey (ed), Culturally Speaking. Managing rapport through talk across cultures. London: Continuum: 165 – 191. LINGUISTIC (IM)POLITENESS (MS) Mills, Sara., 2005. Gender and impoliteness, Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behavior, Culture 1(2), 263-280. Hickey, Leo and Miranda Steward (eds), 2005. Politeness in Europe. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Watts, Richard J., 2003. Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Watts, Richard J., Sachiko Ide and Konrad Ehlich (eds), 1992. Politeness in Language: Studies in its History, theory and practice. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
CONVERSATION ANALYSIS IN PRIVATE & INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS (MS) Drew, Paul and John Herritage, 1992, Talk at work. Interaction in institutional settings, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wooffitt, Robin, 2005, Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction, London: Sage Schegloff, Emanuel A., 2007, Sequence Organization in Interaction: Volume 1: A Primer in Conversation Analysis, Cambridge: CUP ten Have, Paul,. 2007. Doing Conversation Analysis. A Practical Guide. London: Sage. (Second edition of [1999])
THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONCEPT OF DISCOURSE (BE) Fairclough, Norman: Discourse and Social Change. Polity Press, 1992. Foucault, Michel: The Archaeology of Knowledge. Routledge, 1967/2001. Norris, Sigrid and Rodney H. Jones (eds.): Discourse in Action: Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis. Routledge, 2005. Wetherell, Margaret, Stephanie Taylor, and Simeon J Yates (eds.): Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader. Sage in association with The Open University, 2001. LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY, AND POWER (BE) Austin, J. L. How To Do Things With Words. Harvard University Press, (2nd Edition), 1975. Barát, Erzsébet: The troubling internet space of ‘woman’s mind.’ Discourse and Communication. 2009, Vol. 3(4): 1–26. Billig, Michael: Arguing and Thinking. A rhetorical approach to social psychology. Cambridge University Press, 1996 (2nd edition). Fairclough, Norman: Language and Power. Longman, 1989, particularly Chapter 10, the addition in the 2nd edition, 2001. Lazar, M. Michelle (ed.): Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. Gender, Power, and Ideology in Discourse. Palgrave, 2005. Lakoff, Robin Tolmach: The Language War. 2000. University of California Press. LANGUAGE USE AND IDENTITY (BE) Barát, Erzsébet: Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and Desire. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Luisa Orza (eds.) The Intricacies of Sexual Idioms. Rodopi Press, 2008, 103-128. Bourdieu, Pierre: Part I. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Distinction. Routledge, 1979/1996, 9-96. Bucholtz, Mary, A. C. Liang, Laurel Sutton (eds): Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse, Oxford University Press, 1999. Bucholtz, Mary and Hall, Kira (eds.) Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, Routledge, 1995. Gal, Susan and Gail Kligman: Chapter 3. Dilemmas of Public and Private. The Politics of Gender After Socialism. Princeton University Press, 2000, 37-62. ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA (DP) Davies, Alan. 2003. The native speaker: Myth and reality. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Jenkins, Jennifer. 2000. The phonology of English as an international language: new models, new norms, new goals. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jenkins, Jennifer. 2007. ELF: what it is and what it’s thought to be. In: Jenkins, Jennifer, English as a lingua franca: attitude and identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-30. Seidlhofer, Barbara. 2000. Mind the gap: English as a mother tongue vs. English as a lingua franca. Vienna English Working Papers (9)/1, 51-68.
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