14 Sociolinguistics: standards and vernaculars, bilingualism, code-switching and

diglossia, practical applications.

Guidelines:

Language and society

Accents, dialects and idiolects

Standards and vernaculars

pidgins and creoles

Bilingualism, code-switching and diglossia

practical usage of sociolinguistics

References:

1 our lecture

2 Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman: An Introduction to Language, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., USA, chapter 7 Language in Society

Goerge Yule: The study of language,CUP, chapter 21 Language, Society and Culture