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At the end of the course students should be aware of linguistic variation in English as it presents itself in the Englishes spoken by different ethnic and social groups around the world, and able to report on such variation in appropriate spoken and written English. Students wil be able to engage with this variation within the context of intercultural communication and sociolinguistic theory.
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A number of thematic issues will be dealt with in this course, which will highlight the role of language variation as a resource, and a locus of conflict, within intercultural communication. These include pragmatics and cultural norms, language spread and shift, language attitudes, nativeness and standardness. Lectures and workshops will be organised around two different focal points:
1. language contact and conflict in world Englishes,
2. the spread and use of world Englishes in popular music.
In addition to writing an exam essay on one of the issues above, students will be required to give one or more presentations on these topics.If these take the form of group projects, students will be expected to report on the level of cooperation within their groups. They will also take part in an end-of-term exam, in which they will be able to apply their theoretical knowledge of sociolinguistic variation to specific varieties of English.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See students.uu.nl/gw/tcs for more information.
This course is the first course in specialization Cultural Encounters.
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