Course: Language in Society

ECTS credits: 3

Language: German

Duration: one semester

Status: elective

Course type: 1 hour of seminar, 1 hour of lesson

Course description: This course covers following topics: history of sociolinguistics, national varieties of German, language as a polysystem, language and gender.

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to: explain the sociolinguistic strata of German categorize the sociolects and conduct a research.

Teaching methods: teacher-led demonstrations, presentations, classroom discussion

Literature: Heinrich Löffler, Germanistische Soziolinguistik, Berlin, 1985.

Evaluation Methods and Grading: class attendance, seminar paper