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Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You

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Discover the remarkable ways in which our society is a reflection of our language and how our linguistic choices play a determining role in every aspect of our lives.

Syllabus

  • 01: What Does Your Speech Say about You?
  • 02: Does Language Influence Worldview?
  • 03: What Is Sociolinguistics?
  • 04: Four Levels of Language Variation
  • 05: How Do Dialects Develop?
  • 06: Language Change-What's New Is Old Again
  • 07: The Origin and History of American Dialects
  • 08: Your Shifty Vowels
  • 09: Vowel Shifts and Regional American Speech
  • 10: Language and Social Class
  • 11: Sex, Age, and Language Change
  • 12: Language Attitudes and Social Perception
  • 13: Language as a Communicative Process
  • 14: Making Sense of Conversational Intentions
  • 15: Analyzing Conversation
  • 16: The Mechanics of Good Conversation
  • 17: Mind Your Manners-Politeness Speech
  • 18: Linguistic Style and Repertoire
  • 19: The Gender Divide in Language
  • 20: Ethnic Identity and Language
  • 21: Socializing Children into Language
  • 22: Language, Adolescence, and Education
  • 23: Textspeak-2 Bad 4 English?
  • 24: The Changing Face of Linguistic Diversity
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Valerie Fridland

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