Structured Elective - Language and Society

What is the Structured Elective about?
This Structured Elective allows you to pursue study of the interface of society and language. It provides you with the opportunity to take a number of modules focusing on the role of language in society. The material covered deals specifically with the study of language in society rather than the structure of language.

Why should I take this Structured Elective?
The Structured Elective provides you with an insight into how language is used in society to encode cultural beliefs, identities, values, and social patterns. It will develop your ability to apply the basic techniques for collecting/eliciting and transcribing data, including the use of language corpora, elicitation tasks, introspection, questionnaires, interviews and other types of linguistic fieldwork

How would this Structured Elective benefit me?
This Structured Elective would particularly benefit students taking degrees in Language, Social Science, Law, Philosophy, Information and Communication Studies, Politics and Education.

How do I take the modules in the Structured Elective?

• In order to earn this Structured Elective you must take the specified modules in or after 2016/17.
• To receive this Structured Elective you must take the required modules as General or In-Programme Elective modules and not as Core or Option modules.
• You do not need to register for this Structured Elective in advance, it will be awarded when you complete 15 credits during your studies.

Select	Module	Title	Credits
1 from:	LING 10010	Language Use and Communication	5
AND
2 from:	LING 20090 LING 20070 LING 20080 LING 20060	Sociolinguistics 2 Minority & Endangered Languages Meaning 2: Meaning in Language World Englishes	5 5 5 5
OR
1 from:	LING 20090 LING 20070 LING 20080	Sociolinguistics 2 Minority & Endangered Languages Meaning 2: Meaning in Language	5 5 5
AND
1 from:	LING 20060 LING 30110	World Englishes Sociolinguistics 3	5 5