Sociolinguistics

lfra1222  2024-2025  Louvain-la-Neuve

Sociolinguistics
5.00 credits
22.5 h
Q2

  This learning unit is not being organized during year 2024-2025.

Language
French
Prerequisites
Completion of an introductory course in linguistics and of a course on the phenomena of variation in contemporary French. 
Main themes
This course covers the objects, concepts and methods of sociolinguistics. It will provide an overview of the major approaches in this discipline (e.g. variationism, interactional sociolinguistics, studies of language ideologies, critical sociolinguistics), highlighting how each of them articulates specific questions, theories and methods. 
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 Know and explain the specificities of the sociolinguistic approach to language phenomena; 
 
2 Identify and characterise the different approaches of sociolinguistics, understand what distinguishes them at different levels and master the concepts that are specific to them; 
 
3 Question a given linguistic reality from a sociolinguistic perspective (by formulating an appropriate research question) and select appropriate methodological approaches accordingly. 
 
This learning unit contributes to the development and command of the following skills and learning outcomes of the ELAL programmes: 1.4, 1.6, 2.6, 3.5, 3.6.
 
Faculty or entity


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures: German, Dutch and English

Bachelor in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures

Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General

Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures : General