The specific availability for this course is not currently known. If you would like to know if this course will be offered during your session, please contact us.
The class will be blended, i.e. students will study online on the world’s largest E-Learning platform in linguistics: The Virtual Linguistics Campus (www.linguistics-online.com) and deepen their understanding of the topics discussed in the virtual sessions and in the workbook through various activities during fortnightly in-class sessions with the instructor.
This class is based on recent studies into dialectal variation of English, in particular, on two projects in which the Linguistic Engineering Team of Marburg University developed the interactive software in conjunction with the universities of Freiburg, Regensburg, and Kapstadt (Project: Varieties of English) and the University of Pennsylvania (Project: Atlas of North American English). Among others, we will discuss:
In addition to these dialectological aspects we will introduce the main sociolinguistic factors of language variation.
