Sociolinguistics at Pitt focuses on how social situations affect
language and language attitudes, how these can affect the way a
language is spoken, and how social meaning is expressed through
language. We attempt to answer questions such as: - How do
people's identity affect the way they speak, and how does the
way they speak "create" their identity? - What happens to
languages and their speakers when people of different language
backgrounds find themselves living and working in the same
community? - How can governments and institutions maintain or
revitalize languages, while at the same time maintaining
effective communication in a community? - How do attitudes and
ideologies about language affect the way a language is spoken?
|LING 1235/2235||Language, Gender, and Society| |LING
1240||Language and the Law| |LING 1253||Pidgin and Creole
Languages| |LING 1263||Cross-cultural Communication| |LING
1267||Aspects of Sociolinguistics| |LING 1721||Sociolinguistics
of Sign Languages| |LING 1722||Deaf Culture| |LING