Temary

Introducción al concepto de variación en sociolinguística

Análisis de factores sociales y relación con contexto educativo

Diferencias entre lenguas y dialectos: elementos sociales, históricos y políticos

Influencia de las Academias de la lengua. Desarrollo de lenguas estándar.

Las actitudes hacia la lengua estándard, otras lenguas y dialectos

Análisis de prácticas en contextos educativos.Influencia del entorno y redes sociales en el desarrollo de la identidad.

Relación entre el estatus de lenguas mayoritarias y minoritarias. Influencia en el contexto educativo

Alternancia de lenguas. Cambio y muerte de lenguas, Inteligibilidad mutua

Bibliography

Compulsory materials

Meyerhoff, M. (2010) Introducing sociolinguistics. Oxon: Routledge.

Milroy, L. and M. Gordon (2003). Sociolinguistics: methods and interpretations.

Oxford, Blackwell

Basic bibliography

Labov, W. (2000). Principles of Linguistic Change Volume II: Social Factors.

Oxford, Blackwells.

Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1997. English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States. London and New York: Routledge.

In-depth bibliography

Auer, P., F. Hinskens, et al., Eds. (1996). Sociolinguistica. Internationales

Jahrbuch fur Europaische Soziolinguistik. Tubingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag.

Britain, D. (2002) Space and Spatial Diffusion. The Handbook of Variation and

Change. J Chambers, P Trudgill and N Schilling-Estes (eds.) Oxford: Blackwell.

Cooper, R. L. (1989). Language Planning and Social Change. Cambridge,

Cambridge University Press.

Eckert, P. (2000) Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High. Malden: Blackwells

Foulkes, P. and Docherty, G. (1999). Urban Voices. London, Arnold

Gal, S. (1979) Language shift: Social determinants of linguistic change in bilingual Austria. New York, London: Academic Press

Hornberger, N. (1989). "Introduction Bilingual education and indigenous languages in the light of language planning." International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Volume 1989, Issue 77, Pages 5¿10

Labov, W. (1972). Sociolinguistic patterns.

Lambert, W. E., R. C. Hogson, et al. (1972). Evaluational Reactions to Spoken Languages. Language, Psychology and Culture: Essays by Wallace E Lambert. A. S. Dil. Stanford, Stanford University Press.

Milroy, J. and L. Milroy (1999). Authority in Language: Investigating Standard

English. Oxon, Routledge.

Milroy, L. and M. Gordon (2003). Sociolinguistics: methods and interpretations.

Oxford, Blackwell

Preston, D. (2002). Language with an attitude. The handbook of language variation

and change. J. K. Chambers, P. Trudgill and N. Schilling-Estes. Oxford, Wiley-

Blackwell.

Trudgill, P. (1972). "Sex, Covert Prestige and Linguistic Change in the Urban

British English of Norwich." Language in Society 1, 2: 179-195.

Journals

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Language Variation and Change

Links

http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/index.html

http://www.unc.edu/~gerfen/Ling30Sp2002/sociolinguistics.html