Yeah, isn't sociolinguistics the black sheep of American linguistics? Or am I just still bitter because I came into college wanting to be, like, a Discourse Analysis major and found out my school offered one sociolinguistics class?
(Which I took for fun, and learned the word "phatic" in, but then forgot, so I'm listed as a double-no on the poll...)
You're at Swarthmore? I'd applied there but I didn't know the ling department had barely any socioling classes. We recently got in a professor specializing in linguistic anthropology, so we have a whole bunch of sociolinguistics classes but now the anthro department wants to eat us whole.
(I hear to try UChicago for grad school if you're into sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology?)
Well, it used to be a really tiny department, and although it seems to be growing and growing there still aren't a lot of courses. Here's what's offered next semester, e.g. (although to be fair you can also take courses at our three sister colleges):
Intro; Language, Culture, & Society (*); Psychology of Language; Semantics; Phonology (**); Syntax; independent study; field research; senior honors thesis.
(*) aforementioned Sole Sociolinguistics Class, offered every two years (**) through some charming bureaucratic mistake actually listed as "Phonology & Phonology"
Anyway, I am getting my kicks as an English/Philosophy major, which gives me enough time to fret about language in a totally squishy, unsystematic, humanities kind of way. <3
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Date: 4/15/07 05:10 pm (UTC)(Which I took for fun, and learned the word "phatic" in, but then forgot, so I'm listed as a double-no on the poll...)
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Date: 4/16/07 08:34 am (UTC)(I hear to try UChicago for grad school if you're into sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology?)
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Date: 4/16/07 08:50 am (UTC)Intro; Language, Culture, & Society (*); Psychology of Language; Semantics; Phonology (**); Syntax; independent study; field research; senior honors thesis.
(*) aforementioned Sole Sociolinguistics Class, offered every two years
(**) through some charming bureaucratic mistake actually listed as "Phonology & Phonology"
Anyway, I am getting my kicks as an English/Philosophy major, which gives me enough time to fret about language in a totally squishy, unsystematic, humanities kind of way. <3