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KAA / MSOLI
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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MSOLI
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Sociolinguistics
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
5
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
1
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
1
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 15
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0 / 0
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0 / 0
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / 13
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0 / 5
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1 / 2
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
Yes
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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KAA/UDSL
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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The course aims to provide students with a firm grounding in sociolinguistics and to explain the different ways in which sociolinguists research the relation between language and society. It focuses, among other topics, on how speakers present themselves to others, on variation in the form of an individual's use of different styles and registers, and on the way various groups of individuals use language in diverse social settings. The course brings to students' attention the role of non-linguistic factors (e.g. ethnic, social and regional) and the way in which they affect language use. During the course students will have an opportunity to analyse real-life examples of language use and to consider various connections between language and society.
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Requirements on student
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- class attendance and active class participation (online and in-person)
- completion of home assignments
Final course grade based on:
- term paper
- oral exam
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Content
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Introduction to sociolinguistics: Core issues, concepts and approaches
Sociolinguistic study: Methods of observation and analysis
Models of interaction in society (social networks, speech community, community of practice)
Language variation and change: dialects and social groups
Language variation: style, situation, function
Multilingualism and language choice
Language and interaction
Language contact (maintenance, shift, death)
Language, gender and identity
Language, power and inequality
Language planning and policy
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert, and William Leap. (2009). Introducing Sociolinguistics. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
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Basic:
Meyerhoff, Miriam. (2006). Introducing Sociolinguistics. London & New York: Routledge.
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Further literature:
Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.). Concise encyclopedia of sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001.
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Further literature:
Chambers, J.K. and Peter Trudgill. (2004). Dialectology.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Further literature:
Baker, Paul. (2010). Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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Further literature:
Eades, Diana. (2010). Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
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Further literature:
Llamas, Carmen, Louise Mullany, and Peter Stockwell (eds.). (2007). The Routledge companion to sociolinguistics. London & New York: Routledge.
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Recommended:
Wardhaugh, Ronald. (2006). An introduction to sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Recommended:
HOLMES, Janet. (2013). An introduction to sociolinguistics. Fourth edition.. London: Routledge.
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Recommended:
ROMAINE, S. Language in Society. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Recommended:
Paulston, Christina Bratt . Sociolinguistics : the essential readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. ISBN 978-0-631-22717-5.
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Recommended:
Coulmas, Florian. Sociolinguistics : the study of speakers' choices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-67556-8.
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Recommended:
MCCAY, L., HORNBERGER, N.H. Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Recommended:
GEESLIN, Kimberly L. a Avizia Yim LONG. Sociolinguistics and second language acquisition: learning to use language in context.. New York: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-52947-1.
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Recommended:
Eckert, Penelope. Style and sociolinguistic variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-59789-7.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will be able to consider the use of language in connection to particular functions in a society and will acquire skills of applying the knowledge in the process of English language teaching. |
Teaching methods |
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Methods of individual activities
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Assessment methods |
- Oral examination
- Written examination
- Work-related product analysis
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