Fiche de cours
Language Change across the Lifespan
Faculté de gestion: Faculté des lettres
Responsable(s): Jennifer Thorburn
Intervenant(s): -
Pas d'horaire défini.
Séminaire
Semestre d'automne
2 heures par semaine
28 heures par semestre
Langue(s) d'enseignement: anglais
Public: Oui
Crédits: 0
Objectif
After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Critically engage with sociolinguistic literature, with particular focus on language variation and change
- Lead thoughtful academic discussion
- Understand how language use can change across the lifespan
- Understand how age intersects with other social factors
- Design and conduct a quantitative linguistic research project including basic statistical analyses
Contenu
This course introduces students to an increasingly important avenue of investigation in variationist sociolinguistics: intra-speaker linguistic change. Much of the sociolinguistic canon relies on the hypothesis that an individual's way of speaking is fairly stable after adolescence; this course will explore this assumption. Students will analyse key case studies and discuss phenomena such as age-grading and lifespan change. They will conduct an independent research project, which will develop their understanding of how an individual's linguistic practices do or do not change after the critical period. Students will be exposed to different methodologies and tools employed in quantitative variationist sociolinguistics and are expected to implement them in their own study.
Bibliographie
Reading provided on Moodle
Exigences du cursus d'études
C1
