Ethnography of Speaking

Lectures

Week 01: Language as a social reality

1. Lec 1: Introduction to the course; language as seen from sociological and linguistic perspective; Historical account of the social-origin theory of language. Video
2. Lec 2:Role of society on language use and speakers: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau Video
3. Lec 3:Condillac, Vico and Herder Video
4. Lec 4:Other modern scholars of the social-origin theory of language Video
5. Lec 5:Some other domains: sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, ethnolinguistics, and pragmatics Video

Week 2: Language and its variations: speaker-based

6. Lecture 1: What is language? How do languages and dialects get their labels? Video
7. Lecture 2: Regional and social variation: case studies from various Indian languages. Video
8. Lecture 3: Gender and age: key variables in language use and structure; role of underlying cultural construal. Video
9. Lecture 4: Ethnicity and social network Video
10. Lecture 5: Language change. Video

Week 3: Language and its variations: usage-based

11. Lecture 1: Style and register Video
12. Lecture 2: Politeness strategies Video
13. Lecture 3: Cross cultural communication; ethnographic accounts from different cultures Video
14. Lecture 4: Performance of language: narratives and genres Video
15. Lecture 5: Language and perception; social class and language, elaborate code vs restricted code Video

Week 4: Speech Communities

16. Lecture 1: Language and Identities Video
17. Lecture 2: Language attitude in multilingual communities Video
18. Lecture 3: Language ideology Video
19. Lecture 4: Language socialization Video
20. Lecture 5: Case studies Video

Week 5: Language contact: reasons and effects

21. Lec-1: Different types of contact: social, political, economic Video
22. Lec-2: Pidgins and creoles, post creole continuum Video
23. Lec-3: Mixed languages: reasons, grammar and cultural significance. Video
24. Lec-4: Bi/multilingualism: reasons and types; social VS individual bilingualism, impact of bilingualism, Code switchig vs Code mixing. Video
25. Lec-5: Linguistic Area (Sprachbunds), India as a linguistic area Video

Week 6: Language contact: reasons and effects & Discourse analysis

26. Lecture 1: Diglossia Video
27. Lecture 2: Language maintenance, shift: different forces of assimilation leading to shift in language loyalty. Video
28. Lecture 3: Death and revitalization: repercussions of language death, language and cultural cognition; case studies of language revitalization and their impact. Video
29. Lecture 4: Discourse analysis; conversation analysis Video
30. Lecture 5: Critical discourse analysis Video

Week 07: Applied Domains of Sociolinguistics​

31. Lecture 01: Language policy and planning​ Video
32. Lecture 02: : Language in Mass communication Video
33. Lecture 03: Language and Law Video
34. Lecture 04: Discourse strategy used in Daily Communication Video
35. Lecture 05: Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages Video

Week 08: Foray into cognition

36. Lecture 01: What is collective cognition? How is language related to collective cognition? Case studies and examples from different cultures. Video
37. Lecture 02: Supracultural models Video
38. Lecture 03: Social cognition in discourse Video
39. Lecture 04: Cognitive sociolinguistics Video
40. Lecture 05: Social neuroscience and language: new findings on the neural signatures of language and social practices. Video