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After successfully completing this course, students will be able to articulate and apply the theories of language and identity covered in class.
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This course examines how we use language to perform our own identities, to recognize others’ identity performances, and to represent idenitity behaviours in speech and writing. Students will read contemporary research and theory in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology to gain the theoretical tools and research methods for describing and analyzing language behaviors linked to identity. Topics to be covered include language ideology, critical race theory, ethnography, and discourse analysis with the goal of enabling self-reflection about students’ own language attitudes and identity practices. Students will produce preliminary ethnographically-informed research and writing by collecting and examining original data in this domain. They will formulate a relevant research question and use one or more of the following methods of data collection and analysis to answer their question: participant observation, sociolinguistic interview, transcription, discourse analysis, and ethnographic writing. Students will report on these analyses in spoken and written English appropriate for the fields of study introduced here. Lectures and tutorials will be interactive requiring participation in games and game-derived elements as practice-based research for understanding key course concepts.
This is the second course in the Social Life of English specialisation.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major, need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See for more information: https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/
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Early Exit option for international exchange students (5 ECTS)
Exchange students who are required to return to their home university before January, are allowed to choose an Early Exit option for this course. The Early Exit option means that students can finish the course before Christmas break, receiving 5 ECTS for the course. Students must make arrangements with the course coordinator at the start of the course.
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