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LING391 - World Englishes

Description

Explores the global spread of English and the resulting regional, stylistic and social English varieties found in America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Topics may include: historical contexts through which global varieties have developed; the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of the different varieties; language change; socio-cultural and ideological issues associated with language spread; standardization.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-0-0

Course offered by

Department of Linguistics

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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