Your task is to write an essay of 2500 words (+/– 10%) on a topic in Sociolinguistics that interests you.
If you’re having difficulty coming up with a topic, some hypothetical examples are listed below. You may use one of these topics in its existing form, or (more likely) adapt it for your own purposes. There are many other possibilities too.
(1) Differences in the language used by women and men in Ethiopia
(2) The strategies used by Japanese women to express solidarity linguistically
(3) The effects of globalisation on pidgin development in the Caribbean
(4) Codeswitching among trilingual children in Swiss elementary schools
(5) Changes in the Lancashire dialect since 1900
(6) The use of interviews for conducting sociolinguistic research involving children
(7) Evidence for the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in the use of emotion adjectives
(8) Language-planning attempts in Indonesia: implications for education
(9) Contrasts in the use of passive voice among English speakers from three social classes
(10) A critical evaluation of claims that the T/V distinction is becoming an anachronism.
The main book we use is:
Wardhaugh, R. (2010). An introduction to sociolinguistics (6th ed.). Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers.
Please ensure assignment is properly referenced throughout the essay with APA style referencing. Please use at least 9 references and all should be related to the subject of Sociolinguistics.
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