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| LING0005-1 | Sociolinguistics
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | François Provenzano |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| The course consists of three main parts, of varying importance.
The first part sets out the brief story of prehistory, birth, and current developments in this recent discipline of sociolinguistics among the language sciences.
The second part presents the main concepts of sociolinguistics, through three main problematic fields: social variation of language, contacts between languages, linguistic policies.
The third part of the course compares students to specific disciplinary issues, through a written paper (see details below under "Planned learning activities"). |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- recognise and understand the dynamic of the history of ideas, which saw the emergence of questioning the links between language and society, and particularly the emergence of sociolinguistics as a scientific discipline;
- recognise the specificity of the sociolinguistic perspective of language and to identify the main problems of this point of view;
- define the main concepts seen in class and apply them to simple cases;
- themselves define a (simple) sociolinguistic problem and propose a clear and argued state of the art. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Good oral and written command of French.
Knowledge of general linguistics would be an advantage. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Lectures, with discussion between teacher and students. At the start of each session, students can ask questions about the preceding session.
The course anticipates no practical work sessions, but ends with a scientific piece of work conducted individually.This work consists in:
- choosing a topic from the sociolinguistics field;
- identifying at least two books / journals, or five papers related to the topic and published within a period of at least 10 years;
- producing a state of the art, in a argued text of max. 7 pages. This state of the art will lead to concrete proposals for future research.
The final version of the work is to provide to the teacher, in paper version (in the letter-box, 3rd floor of A2 building, in front of the lifts) AND in electronic version (Francois.Provenzano@ulg.ac.be), not later than 15 days before the date set for the oral examination.
Students can consult the teacher at all stages of this work. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The major part of the course will be given in lecture form, including discussion between students and the teacher. At the start of each session, students can ask questions about preceding sessions.
The final piece of work will be conducted individually by the students, who can consult the teacher during surgery hours (see below under "Contacts"). |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| No syllabus is proposed. Students will take notes in class; their presence is therefore compulsory. To complete their notes or to study an aspect of the subject in greater detail, students can turn to the following references, which are provided for information and will be commented upon during the first session.
BALIBAR (R.), L'Institution du français. Essai sur le colinguisme des carolingiens à la République, Paris, PUF, 1985.
BOURDIEU (P.), Ce que parler veut dire. L'Economie des échanges linguistiques, Paris, Fayard, 1982.
BOYER (H.), Introduction à la sociolinguistique, Paris, Dunod, 2001.
CALVET (L-J.) & DUMONT (P.) (dir.), L'Enquête sociolinguistique, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999.
LABOV (W.), Sociolinguistique [1972], Paris, Minuit, 1976.
MARCELLESI (J.-B.) & GARDIN (B.), Introduction à la sociolinguistique. La linguistique sociale, Paris, Larousse, "Langue et langage", 1974.
PROVENZANO (Fr.), Vies et mort de la francophonie. Une politique française de la langue et de la littérature, Bruxelles, Impressions nouvelles, 2011. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Assessment will consist of two parts:
1) Written piece of work (see below). Assessment will take into account:- the originality and clarity in the choice and definition of the topic;
- the relevance of the selected references;
- the consistency of the speech and its loyalty to the shown contents;
- the ability to develop a personal argumentation from a state of the art and to identify possible innovative research on the topic;
- editorial and linguistic care.
The rating for this part will be an appreciation letter (TI, I, S, D, GD, PGD), which will take about 50 PCTs in the final grade.
2) Oral examination: in two parts:
a) questioning of encyclopaedic knowledge of the history of sociolinguistic thought and the problems and concepts associated with sociolinguistic analysis;
b) discussion about the written piece of work. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The teacher will meet the students who are interested in this course, on Wednesday 26st of September2012, at 12AM, classroom Commu 2. |
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Contacts :
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| Surgery hours : Wednesdays, 10AM-12AM, office A2/4/4.
Mail : Francois.Provenzano@ulg.ac.be
Tel. office : 04 366 56 45.
Secretary : V. Hamoir and C. Jouck. |
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