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L23B -- Introduction to Sociolinguistics

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Prescribed Text
  • Coupland, Nikolas & Jaworski, Adam. 1997. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. New York: St. Martin=s Press.
Additional Readings

  • Downes, William. 1998. Language and Society (2nd Edition). Cambridge University Press.
  • Hymes, Dell. 2003. Models of the interaction of language and social life. In Paulston, C. & Tucker, R. (eds.) Sociolinguistics - The Essential Readings. Blackwell Publishing (30-47)
  • Milroy, Lesley & Gordon, Matthew. 2003. Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation. Oxford:
    Blackwell Publishing.
  • Patrick, Peter. 1999. Urban Jamaican Creole. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
  • Woolard, Kathryn. 1998. Introduction: Language ideology as a field of inquiry. In Schieffelin, B., Woolard, K. & Kroskrity, P. (eds.). Language Ideologies B Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press.
  • Labov, William. 1972. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Winford, Donald. 1997. Re-examining Caribbean English creole continua. In World Englishes, 16, 2: 233 - 279.
  • Shields-Brodber, Kathryn. 1998. Hens can crow too: The female voice of authority on air in Jamaica. In Christie, P., Lalla, B., Pollard, V. & Carrington, L. (eds.) Studies in Caribbean Language II. Papers from the 9th Biennial Conference of the SCL, 1992 (187-203).
  • Irvine, Alison. (2004). A good command of the English language: Phonological variation in the Jamaican acrolect. In JPCL 19,1:41-75.
 
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