LNX631  Multilingualism

Course Details: Course Title:          Multilingualism  Course Code:         LNX631 Credit Hours:         03 Class Timing:         1530-1830 – Every Monday Class Venue:          Room 17, Ground Floor,                                Jinnah Block Course Website:    www.qazis.com

Tutor Information: Course Tutor:        Ubaidullah A Qazi Email:                    ubaid.qazi@fui.edu.pk Phone:                   051 5151431 Ext: 295 Office:                   Department of English,                               First Floor, 3rd Admin Block Visiting Hours:       Mon-Thu 1245-1500hrs

Course Description:

The purpose is to introduce students to various aspects of multilingualism from a 'sociolinguistic' perspective. It covers aspects such as the roles of languages in multilingual societies, diglossia, language maintenance,  language conflict, language policy, language endangerment and language death.  Students will learn about some important case studies involving these aspect and will be encouraged to actively engage in practical research.

Successful students are expected to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of issues of Multilingualism and apply them to the analysis of examples from their own experience as language learners
• Be aware of multilingualism in Europe, North America and Asia.
• Identify and analyse different kinds of multilingualism both on a society and individual level.
• Use the new linguistic terminology appropriately.
• Be able to identify linguist solutions for social propblems

Field Work:

·         To be assigned later

Required Books:

Essential Texts:

Book 1:     Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism
                  Carol Myers-Scotton  (Available for download on Website)

Book 2:     Handbook of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication
                  Peter Auer and Li Wei (Available for download on Website)

Book 3:     Introducing Multilingualism : A Social Approach
                  Jean-Jacques weber and Kristine Horner (Available in University Library)

Book 4:     The Handbook of Bilingualism
                  Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie (Available for download on Website)

Book 5:     Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching 
                  Sandra Lee McKay & Nancy H Hornberger - CUP 1996 (Available for download)

Other Texts:

Article 1:   Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Some Central Concepts 
                    John Edwards (Available for download on Website)

Weekly Schedule: 

Week	Topic	Readings
1	Introduction to Course, Syllabus Layout, Lecture Schedule, exam guidelines a)     Bilingualism ·         Where does bilingualism come from? ·         Linguistics: what they know and don’t know ·         Why so many languages ·         Why bilingualism matters	a)      Book 1 - Multiple Voices... Page 1-16
2	Introducing Language and Dialect. What ‘social work’ do they do? a.      Introduction ·         What is a language? ·         Mutual Intelligibility ·         Dialects as groupings under a language ·         The written language and dialects ·         Identifying the standard dialect ·         Who speaks a dialect b.      Introducing Multilingualism ·         Discourse model of language ·         What is Standard English? ·         Fuzzy boundaries of languages	a)      Book 1 - Multiple Voices... Chapter 2, Page 16-34   b)      Book 3 - Introducing Multilingualism Chapter 3, Page 27-38
3	Bilingualism and multilingualism  a.      Introducing Multilingualism ·         Who is a bilingual or Multilingual? ·         Defining Bilingualism ·         Defining Multilingualism ·         Factors promoting these –isms b.      Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Some Central Concepts	a)      Book 1 - Multiple Voices... Chapter 3, Page 35-66   b)      Article 1 – Johan Edwards Page 5-24
4	Approaches to Study: a)      Studying Bilinguals ·         Methodological and Conceptual Issues b)      Studying Societal Multilingualism ·         The construction of Meaning ·         Dominant vs. critical readings ·         Ethnographically based discourse analysis ·         The study of language ideologies	a)      Book 4 - The Handbook of Bilingualism Chapter 2, Page 32-66   b)      Book 3 - Introducing Multilingualism Chapter 2, Page 12-24
5	Acquisition a)      Early Bilingual and multilingual Acquisition	a)      Book 2 - Handbook of Multilingualism Chapter 1, Page 15-44
6	Code Switching, Mixing and Speech Accommodation a)      Code-switching as a conversational strategy  b)      Code Switching and Grammatical Theory	a)      Book 2 - Handbook of Multilingualism Chapter 11, 279-314 b)      Book 4 - The Handbook of Bilingualism Chapter 11, Page 283-311
7	a)      Mixed codes  b)      Social and Psychological Factors in Language Mixing	a)      Book 2 - Handbook of Multilingualism Chapter 11, 315-340 b)      Book 4 - The Handbook of Bilingualism Chapter 13, page 336-352
8	a)      Multilingual forms of talk and identity work  b)      The social motivation for language use in interpersonal interactions	a)      Book 2 - Handbook of Multilingualism Chapter 13, page 341-370 b)      Book 1 - Multiple Voices... Chapter 6, page 142-174
9	Mid Term Exam
10	a)      Multilingualism and the family b)      Multilingualism in the workplace	a)      Book 2 - Handbook of Multilingualism Chapter 2, 45-68 b)      Book 2 - Handbook of Multilingualism Chapter 16, 405-422
11	a)      Multilingualism and specific language impairment (SLI)  b)       Bilingual Aphasia	a)      Book 2 - Handbook of Multilingualism Chapter 9, page 229-246 b)      Book 4 - The Handbook of Bilingualism chapter 3, page 71-89
12	a)      Societal multilingualism (I) b)      Societal multilingualism (II) c)      Societal multilingualism: reality, recognition and response	a)      Book 3 - Introducing Multilingualism chapter 6, page 69-81 b)      Book 5 - Sociolinguistics and Language Chapter 2, page 47-70 c)      Book 2 - Handbook of Multilingualism Chapter 18, Page 447-468
13	a)      Language and Identities b)      Ideologies and attitudes	a)      Book 3 - Introducing Multilingualism Chapter 7, page 82-94 b)      Book 1 - Multiple Voices..., Chapter 5 page 107-141
14	a)      Language Planning and Policy b)      Language policies and globalization	a)      Book 5 - Sociolinguistics and Language Chapter 4, page 103-148 b)      Book 1 - Multiple Voices... Chapter, 13, 369-411
15	a)      Language maintenance and Shift  b)      Language Contact & Language Death	a)      Book 1 - Multiple Voices... Chapter  4, page 67-106 b)     Reading to be confirmed
16	a)      Language Variation and the spread of global languages  b)      Revitalization of endangered languages	a)      Book 3 - Introducing Multilingualism Chapter 4, Page 39-52 b)      Book 3 - Introducing Multilingualism Chapter 5, 53-66
17	Multilingual Education a)      Mother tongue education b)      Heritage language Education	a)      Book 3 - Introducing Multilingualism Chapter 10, page 123-135 b)      Book 3 - Introducing Multilingualism Chapter 11, page 136-148
18	Final Exams

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