Methods In Sociolinguistics

This course aims to give you a thorough insight into key areas of sociolinguistic research that will help you understand the linguistic, sociolinguistic, and/or social aspects and effects of language in social contexts. In this course you will learn to how to carry out sociolinguistic research studies, including collecting and processing empirical data and you will present this data verbally as well as in a fully-fledged research paper. In particular, you will learn how to source the necessary additional reading to understand essential sociolinguistic concepts; how to develop appropriate data collection tools; how to administer such tools and how to analyse the data you collect.