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Language Analysis and Language in Society 682 Unit Outline

Essential Administrative Information

Most of the information you need below can be found at the unit webpage in the online handbook. search at http://handbook.curtin.edu.au/unitSearch.html Unit Title Language Analysis and Language in Society 682 Unit Description Sociolinguistics and the role(s) and status of English in multicultural societies, with a particular focus on Asia. Introduction to sociolinguistic research and its importance to language teaching. 12380 (v5) Education 25 credits Off shore None None If you are taking this unit as a required (core) unit in your course of study, you may be terminated from your course of study if you fail this unit twice Result Type Incidental Fees and Charges Grade and Mark All fee information can be obtained through the Fees Centre. Visit http://www.fees.curtin.edu.au/index.cfm and/or by contacting the relevant Faculty Office. Dr Phuong See RETRAC http://oasis.curtin.edu.au http://humanities.curtin.edu.au

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Student Feedback
For Semester 1 and Semester 2 eVALUate is open for student feedback in weeks 12-17. For other study periods see http://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/dates.cfm We welcome your feedback as one way to keep improving this unit. Later this semester, you will be encouraged to give unit feedback through eVALUate, Curtins online student feedback system (see http://evaluate.curtin.edu.au). Recent changes to this unit in response to student feedback through eVALUate include: 1. Cutting down the number of assignments

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Student Rights and Responsibilities

It is the responsibility of every student to be aware of all relevant legislation and policies and procedures relating to their rights and responsibilities as a student. These include: the Student Charter the Universitys Guiding Ethical Principles the Universitys policy and statements on plagiarism and academic integrity copyright principles and responsibilities the Universitys policies on appropriate use of software and computer facilities Information is available through the University's Student Rights and Responsibilities web page: http://students.curtin.edu.au/rights/

Introduction
The aim of this unit is to familiarise students with issues concerning language and society. Emphasis is given to how various sociolinguistic factors impact upon multicultural societies, particularly those in the AsianPacific region.

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit, students are expected to be able to: relate sociolinguistic theories to constructions of lived social reality; examine sociolinguistic topics of personal or professional interest; and discuss the complexities and ambiguities surrounding language analysis and language in society

Reading and Resources

Recommended textbook: Wardhaugh, R. (2002) An introduction to sociolinguistics. 4th edition. You will also need the unit reader: Language Analysis and Language in Society 682 Book of Readings, School of Education, Curtin University (an electronic version of this is available through e-reserve ) Extra readings are: Journals
Language in Society P301 55805

E-Journals:
Language Variation and Change World Englishes

Books
Baldauf, L.A.,and Luke, A, (eds) (1990) Language planning and education in Australiasia and the Pacific. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Bolton, K. and H. Kwok (eds) (1992) Sociolinguistics today: International perspectives . London: Routledge
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J. Cheshire and P. Trudgill. (1998). The sociolinguistics reader, Volume 2: Gender and discourse . London: Arnold. Coulmas, F. (2005). Sociolinguistics: The study of speakers choice. Cambridge: CUP N. Coupland and A. Jaworski (eds). (1997). Sociolinguistics. A reader and coursebook . Houndmills: Macmillan. ________ (1997). The handbook of sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. Downes, W. (1998). Language and society. 2nd edition. Cambridge: CUP Edwards, J. (1989) 2nd edition Language and disadvantage . London: Cole and Whurr Fasold, R. (1984) The sociolinguistics of society . Oxford: Basil Blackwell ______ (1990) Sociolinguistics of language. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Figueroa, E. (1994) Sociolinguistic metatheory. Pergamon Fishman, J, (1970) Sociolinguistics: A brief introduction. Rowley, Mass: Newbury House Gibbons, J. (1987). Code mixing and code choice: A Hong Kong case study. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Giles, H. and Coupland, N. (1991) Language: Contexts and consequences. Buckingham: Open University Press H.Giles and W.P. Robinson (eds) (1990) Handbook of language and social psychology . Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Gopinathanan, S., Pakir, A., Ho, W. K. and Saravan, V. (eds) (1994 ) Language, society and education in Singapore: Issues and trends. Singapore: OUP Gumperz, J.J. (ed) (1982) Language and social identity. Cambridge: CUP Hj Omar, A. (1982) Language and society in Malaysia. K.L.: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. Holmes, J. (1992) An introduction to sociolinguistics. London: Longman Hudson, R. (1996) 2nd edition. Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: CUP Kaplan, R.B. (1989) Language planning vs planning language. In C.N. Candlin and T.F. McMcNamara (eds) Language, learning and community. Macquarie: NCELTR, Macquarie University Lucy, J. (1992) Language diversity and thought. Cambridge: CUP McKay, S and N. Hornberger (eds) (1996) Sociolinguistics and language teaching. Cambridge: CUP Mesthrie, R., Swann, J., Deumert, A. and Leap, W. (2000). Introducing sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Noss, R (ed) (1984) An overview of language issues in South-East Asia 1950-1980 . Singapore: OUP J.C. Richards and R.W. Schmidt (eds) (1983) Language and communication . London: Longman Romaine, S. (2000) An introduction to sociolinguistics. 2nd edition Oxford: OUP Singh, R. (ed) (1996) Towards a critical sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Tickoo, M.L.(1995) Language and culture in multilingual societies. Singapore: Sherson Publishing House Tickoo, M. (ed) (1991) Language and standards: Issues, attitudes, case studies . Anthology series 26. Singapore: RELC Tollefson, J.W. (1995) Power and inequality in language education Cambridge: CUP ______ (1991) Planning language, planning inequality. London: Longman P. Trudgill and J. Cheshire (Eds). The sociolinguistic reader, volume 1: Multilingualism abd variation. London: Arnold. Tsuda, Y. (1986) Language inequality and distortion in intercultural communication . Amsterdam: John Benjamins Wardhaugh, R. (1989) Languages in competition. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Wolfson, N. (1989) Perspectives: Sociolinguistics and TESOL. Cambridge: Newbury House.

Assessment
Assessment Summary
Assessment Assessment 1 Assessment 2 Total
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Assessment
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Assessment 1 Literature Review (40%)

For this assignment you are required to survey research which is connected with the topic you have chosen to investigate in Ass 2 and to discuss this research critically. For example, if you wish to look at code switching between Mandarin and English by Chinese teenagers you might first discuss the issue of code switching in general and in doing so define terms etc. You might then move on to look at research conducted on code switching from Mandarin to English (or vice versa) stating any findings from this research. Finally you would mention any research done on this with Chinese teenagers. You would include analyses of problems with conducting this research etc. In-text references should be consistent throughout the Review and in APA style. The review should be of approximately 2,500 -3000 words.

Assessment 2 Report on a Sociolinguistic investigation (60%)

For this assignment, which will be theoretically grounded in Assignment 1, you are required to conduct and then present findings from a sociolinguistic investigation. You should attach the Literature Review conducted for Assignment 1 to your report and discuss your findings in terms of the findings of the Literature Review. Unusual findings or implications for teaching should be addressed and discussed if appropriate. The referencing style to be used should be the same as that used in the Literature review (APA). The final report, excluding the Literature Review, should be of approximately 3,500 -4000 words.

Here are some topics done in the past by other students to give you an idea of the kind of things you could do:
Description of the job interview as a speech event Migrant versus non-migrant perceptions of linguistic acceptability Analysis of the structure of talkback radio Style shifting between sporting and academic settings Childrens bedtime rituals as speech events Attitudes to sexist language Comparisons of spoken and written accounts of the same speech event Examining Motherese in Australia The occurrence of code switching from Bahasa Malaysian to AusE Comparing news readers styles across TV channels Analysis of the features of Black English in female rap music. Sexism in Iranian English language course books. Code-switching in Malaysian films. Language and gender in Japanese. The use of loan words in Japanese cosmetic advertisements. Analysis of Aboriginal English written narratives. Gender in relation to the language in magazines. Sexism in Saudi English language course books. Cross-linguistic analysis of news broadcasts in Australia and Indonesia

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Detailed rubrics and marking criteria will be distributed in the first session. Students must attempt all assignments to pass the unit.

Late Assessment
Students are expected to submit each assessment on or before the due deadline date. Failure to do so will result in a 10% penalty per calendar day (e.g. 10% per day off the total marks available an assignment worth 25 marks will lose 2.5 marks every day it is late). An assignment more than 7 days overdue will not be marked. The Late Assessment Guidelines and Request for Extension form are available online, please see http://humanities.curtin.edu.au/current_students/late_assessment.cfm

Supplementary information
Enrolment:
It is your responsibility to ensure that your enrolment is correct - you can check your enrolment through the eStudent option on OASIS, where you can also print an Enrolment Advice.

Supplementary/Deferred Exams:
Supplementary and deferred examinations are granted by the School of Education. Notification to students will be made after the School of Education Board of Examiners meeting via the Official Communications Channel (OCC) in OASIS. It is the students responsibility to check their OASIS account for official Curtin correspondence on a weekly basis. If your results show that you have been awarded a supplementary or deferred exam you should immediately check your OASIS email for details.

Plagiarism Monitoring
Some (or all) assessments in this unit will be monitored for plagiarism using Turnitin plagiarism detection service (see http://turnitin.com). Students who do not want assignments retained in the Turnitin database, must lodge a special request prior to the submission date. For further advice see http://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/studentsturnitin.html.

Your Responsibilities in the Unit

Please note the following points carefully: (i) (ii) Literacy standards appropriate for university study are required. All work should be carefully checked for accuracy before it is submitted . If any assignment is deemed not to be of a suitable standard by the lecturer, he or she may require that it be revised and resubmitted by a specified date. In any case where the resubmission required, the mark for that assignment will be not more than a minimum pass mark. Only one resubmission per unit is allowed. An attempt at all components of assessment is necessary to pass the unit. Due dates for all assignments are final.

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