General information

Course name	Seminar: 10-76-6-D2b-01 Key Topics in Linguistics: The sociolinguistics of language contact: Focus on Belize
Subtitle
Course number	10-76-6-D2b-01
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	14
maximum number of participants	20
Home institute	Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type	Seminar in category Teaching
Next date	Thursday, 19.06.2025 10:15 - 11:45, Room: FVG M0160
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja

Lecturers

Nicole Hober, M.A.

Rooms and times

FVG M0160: Thursday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly (12x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This class focuses on the sociolinguistics of language contact by looking at the Central American country of Belize, a former colony of the British Empire. We will look at the prevalent multilingualism of Belizeans and think about how the languages spoken by Belizeans, amongst others, Kriol and English, interact. We will discuss language ideologies and how these language ideologies manifest in public and private domains. We will also look at contact phenomena in language use, including lexical borrowing, structural influence, and code-switching.

Students will develop their own research projects to investigate selected aspects of sociolinguistics of language contact in Belize.

Note: This course will only commence on the 17th of April, meaning there will be no class on the 10th of April.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Limited number of participants: Key Topics in Linguistics: The sociolinguistics of language contact: Focus on Belize".

The following rules apply for the admission:

A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Potential participants are given additional information before enroling to the course.

Seminar: 10-76-6-D2b-01 Key Topics in Linguistics: The sociolinguistics of language contact: Focus on Belize - Details