Disciplines
Sociolinguistics
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?
| Courses | Descriptions |
|---|---|
| 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 2144 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics |
| LING 2234 | Language Planning |
| LING 2250 | Language Policies and the Education of Linguistic Minorities |
| LING 2267 | Sociolinguistics |
| LING 2268 | Research in Sociolinguistics |
| LING 2269 | Current Issues in Sociolinguistics |
| LING 2270 | Advanced Sociolinguistics |
| LING 2271 | Language, Nationalism, and Ethnicity |
| LING 2272 | Sociology of Language |
