= final examination topics: MA, English: Language and Society (Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics)

 

1. Standard and vernacular English

Wardhaugh, R. (2010). An introduction to sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 2: pp. 23-51.

 

2. Regional varieties of English

Wardhaugh, R. (2010). An introduction to sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.  Chapter 6: pp. 137-144.

 

3. Social varieties of English

Wardhaugh, R. (2010). An introduction to sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 6: pp. 144-155; Chapter 7: pp. 166-184.

 

4. Multilingualism

Wardhaugh, R. (2010). An introduction to sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 4: pp. 84-112.

 

5. English-based pidgins and creoles

Wardhaugh, R. (2010). An introduction to sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.  Chapter 3: pp. 53-83.

 

6. Language and power

Van Dijk, T. A. (2003). Critical discourse analysis. In D.Schiffrin, D. Tannen, & H. E. Hamilton (Eds.), The handbook of discourse analysis. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Blackwell Reference Online. 26 May 2008

 

7. Language change

Wardhaugh, R. (2010). An introduction to sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.  Chapter 8: pp. 195-225.

 

8. Concern with meaning: Semantics and pragmatics

Leech, G. (1983). The principles of pragmatics London: Longman.  pp. 1-7. 

Yule, G. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1: pp. 3-8.

 

9. Speech Act Theory

Huang, Y. (2007). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 4: pp. 93-131.

 

10. Grice’s Cooperative Principle

Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and conversation. In P. Cole & J. L. Morgan (Eds.), Syntax and semantics 3: speech acts  (pp. 41-58).  New York: Academic Press.

 

11. Politeness

Paltridge, B. (2006). Discourse analysis. London: Continuum. pp. 72-79.

Widdowson, H. G. (1983). Learning purpose and language use.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 78-9.

 

12. Pragmatics of English as an international language

Seidlhofer, B. (2009). Accommodation and the idiom principle in English as a Lingua Franca.  Intercultural Pragmatics 6(2), 195-215.