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Elective Sample - Sociolinguistics
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The course covers the following topics:
• What does sociolinguistics study?
• Multilingual Speech Communities
• Language Maintenance and Shift
• Linguistic Varieties and Multilingual Nations

Assessment Basis
• Performance in class
• Quizzes at the end of each week
• Presentations
Outcomes
• To have the basic ideas of:
• Why we say the same thing in different ways
• Language choice in multilingual communities
• Language death and language loss
• Vernacular languages, standard languages, lingua francas, pidgins and creoles