Sociolinguistics Internet Resources week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

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Week 1 Introduction--discovering sociolinguistics

• Fishing talk
  
• Answering the phone
  
• Giving complements
  
• A piece of cake
  
• Talking trash
  
• LDS talk
  
• Cakchiquel kinship

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Part I Multilingual Speech Communities

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Week 2  Language choice

• Philippines
• Checking for Filipino Diglossia
• Part 1: Teachers and the Media in Metro Manila and the Visayas
•  Part 2: Teachers and Interpersonal Relations in Metro Manila and the Visayas
• Taglish: Filipino Code Switching
• Language Choice in Filipino Commercials

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Week 3 Language shift

• Domains and Language Loyalty
• Mexican American Language Loyalty in an Austin Texas Neighborhood
• Terms to Reflect on from Chapters 2 and 3
  

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Week 4 Language norms in multilingual nations

• Colonial Africa
• African language families
  
• Africa's official languages
• Nigerian Pidgin English
• Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
• Creating a standard language
• Map of England

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Week 5 Language planning

• English Spelling and the New World Order
• Creating a standard language
• Public acceptance
• The Russians are Coming!
  
• Russians take over
• Cakchiquel and standardization--how do you spell it?
  
• Designing a writing system--Pidgin English case study
• Case study: Tok Pisin 
• Select and Codify
  
• Tok Pisin. An overview of the language.
• Elaborate and promote public acceptance through various domains
  
• Public Signs: No smoking
• Public Health: Malaria Comic
• Law: Constitution
• Business Education: Tok Pisin Manual on Web Publishing.
  
• Other case studies for discussion
• Terms to Reflect on from Chapters 4 and 5
  

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Part II Variation in users

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Week 6 Regional dialects

• Florida Talk Quiz
• Map of American English Dialects
• Pop versus soda
• Miami Slanguage
• Regional Quiz
• English to American Dictionary--Clothing
  

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Week 7 Social Dialects: Gender and age

• Group identify
• Talking trash
• LDS talk
• The Age Quiz
• Gender differences
• Cakchiquel kinship
• Why Women's Talk?

Concepts introduced in Chapters 6 and 7

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Week 8 Ethnicity and Social  Networks

• Ethnic English Dictation
• Creating a social identity
  

Concepts introduced in Chapter 8

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Week 9 Language Change

• Interview with a fisherman
• How English is English?
• Random words from the dictionary
  
• Middle to Modern English
• Swadesh word list
• Finding related languages through numbers
• Family trees
• Indoeuropean tree
• European  map of IE languages
  
• Converting German to English
  
• Converting Latin to English
  
• What's happening to English?
• The Chapter 9 Headings

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Part III Variation in uses

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Week 10 Accommodation Theory

• Data collection case studies
  
• American English: Working with live data
  
• Filipino English: Language switching in Filipino commercials
• Mexican American English: Focusing on features in a transcript
  
• Spanish foreigner talk and foreigner register: Situational questionnaires
  

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Week 11 Speech functions and politeness across cultures

• Speech functions
• Eliciting polite directives
• Quantifying politeness
  
• A cross cultural comparison:  Indian English
• Concepts introduced in Chapters 10 and 11
  

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Week 12 Stereotypes

• Lakoff's features
• Text analysis
• stereotypes in discourse: A happy couple
  
• stereotypes through grammar: A bell tolls
  

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Week 13 Language and cognition

• Concepts in Chapter 13
• Speech functions
• Cakchiquel kinship
• Developing the mind through language--Frog stories
• Sculpting with language
• Masefield: Sea Fever
  
• Hemingway: A farewell to arms | For whom the bells tolls
• Salinger: The catcher in the rye
  
• Imitations: A farewell to porridge | Catch her in the oatmeal
  
• Tom Wolfe: The put together girl
•  Daniel Keyes:   Flowers for Algernon
• Cross cultural evidence
  
• Tagalog focus
• Taglish: merging semantics and syntax
• Cakchiquel: pronoun incorporation
  

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Week 14 Attitudes

• Case Study 1--spelling
  
• Ladle rat
• New spelling
• Spelling checking
  
• Cakchiquel --how do you spell it?
• More politics and spelling--pidgins and creoles
• If the Russians had won
• New signs
• New talk  
• Russians and Rhebus
  
• Choosing and promoting a writing system
• Comparing the systems
• phonetics for English?
• syllable writing--hiragana
• word writing--kanji
  
• English word writing
• English?
• Promoting literacy--rhebus origins
  
• Rhebus and English
  

• Case Study 2--pronunciation and grammar
• Are all varieties of English equal?
• Mexican American English
• Power versus peer--overt versus covert prestige

• Sociolinguistic universals?
• Concepts in Chapter 14 and Conclusion