Understand - how language and society mutually shape each other, - diversity in language use, - the social factors that determine diversity in language use, -the social structure of languages - the factors that shape communication - the nature of the various media of communication and their relationship to each other - the structure of multilingual societies and the factors that condition it - some key phenomena that arise due to contact between languages
Reflect upon and critically assess: - common (lay) views about the socially indexical and constitutive nature of variation in language - views about languages and dialects and their relationship to local social and institutional structure - measures of language planning

Selected topics are:
Animal communication,
Paralanguage,
Linguistic Politeness,
language variation,
how written, spoken and computer-mediated language relate to each other,
language and gender,
language vitality,
aspects for bilingualism and multilingualism

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• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

All continuous assessment assignments, group and individual assignments, that are submitted during the term will be returned to students with comments. In addition, comments will be provided to the whole class on commonly occurring issues via the Bright Space announcement function and orally in class. Students will also be encouraged to raise issues on assessment in class and in tutorials. The aim is to help students to identify where and how their work can be improved. Students receive several assignments for completion during the semester and the feedback on each assignment is designed to support work on subsequent assignments. Feedback on the final exam has to be sought individually by students.