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| Semester | fall semester 2018 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Brigitte Halford (b.halford@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Sociophonetics is a field with a growing research agenda and diverse directions. It focuses on the relationship between phonetic/phonological form and social and interactional factors. Beside the variationist interest in speech production, recent socio-phonetic studies have also been concerned with the effects of variation on speech perception, phonological categorization, acquisition, speaker and self-identification, and speech accommodation. This research seminar will deal with different dimensions of sociophonetic variation, perceptual dialectology, accent recognition, and speaker judgments about the indexical properties of variation in the speech signal. In the practical research part you will be introduced to experimental techniques and will conduct a small research project on a topic of your choice from the areas of production, perception or evaluation. |
| Learning objectives | Overview over theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of sociophonetics. Insight into the complex relation between social factors and language behaviour in production, perception, and attitudinal evaluation. Awareness of the social relevance of linguistic variation in everyday life. |
| Bibliography | Reading will be made available on ADAM. |
| Comments | For the practical work you will occasionally need to bring a notebook or tablet with internet access to class. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Admission requirements | Open only to MA students in English and the MA Language and Communication |
| Course application | In order to ensure a good learning environment, we aim at no more than 20 students per class. We ask you to register via the following doodle link: https://doodle.com/poll/zwwuwv22h5kx5xgy (2 classes). We recommend that you create a doodle account. Should you have not made it into one of the courses and you are only able to register for the waiting lists, we guarantee that we will take you in the course with the least student numbers. The doodle will close on 9 September in order to finalize student distribution in the week before term starts. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, mandatory |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul English Linguistics (Master's degree subject: English) Modul Forschungspraxis und Vertiefung (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) Modul Research in English Linguistics (Master's degree subject: English) Modul Sprache und Gesellschaft (Master's degree program: Language and Communication) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Oral presentation and written documentation of research |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |