Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how particular beliefs about language, including stereotypes and prejudice, emerge and develop.
- Sociolinguistic phenomena relating to language ideology, and sociopsychological phenomena relating to language attitudes;
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- display both self-confidence and self-awareness in your studies
- show capacity for problem solving, information gathering and presenting your findings
- demonstrate written communication skills through the development of ideas and arguments
- display individual learning, study and performance skills and time management through your independent learning activities
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- evaluate sociolinguistic data using theoretical and methodological models
- synthesise your own commentaries of sociolinguistic case studies
- recognise principles underlying the analysis and significance of sociolinguistic data in a global context
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 12 |
Revision | 20 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 70 |
Seminar | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 26 |
Wider reading or practice | 10 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Milroy, J. and Milroy, L. (2012). Authority in Language Investigating Standard English. London: Routledge.
Garrett, Peter (2010). Attitudes to language. Cambridge: CUP.
Gal, S. and J. Irvine (2019). Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life. Cambridge: CUP.
Lippi-Green, Rosina (2012). English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States. London: Routledge.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Research project Report | 40% |
Reflective essay | 60% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Research project Report | 40% |
Reflective essay | 60% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Research project Report | 40% |
Reflective essay | 60% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External