2021-2022 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 11, 2024  
2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENGL 509 - Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

Sociolinguistics is the study of language in society, including dialectology, gender issues, politeness, language policy, and pedagogy. Pragmatics is the study of communication in context, including deixis, implicature, speech acts, metaphor, and other tropes. This course is cross-level listed with ENGL 409.