MA English Part II      BZ University Multan

Paper-12 Sociolinguistics & Psycholinguistics

Sociolinguistics:

• Sociolinguistics-definitions, origins, approaches

• Dimensions of Variation in Language

• Multilingualism

• Language Identity, Power and Politics

• Language Culture and View of the World

• Social Literacy

• Non-native varieties of English

• Endangered Languages of the World

• Language Planning

• Methods for studying Sociolinguistics

Psycholinguistics:

• Introduction to Psycholinguistics

• Basic Language Abilities of Speakers

• Watson's Word Association Theory

• Staat's Word Class Association Theory

• Skinner’s Sentence Frame Theory

• Fries' Sentence Frame Theory

• Chomsky's Grammar Schema Theory

• Frame Theory

• Script Theory

• Chomsky’s Rationalism

• Language and Thought

• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

• Child Language Acquisition

• Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

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Holmes, J. (1992) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. USA. Longman,

Suzanne Romaine. 1995. Bilingualism (2nd Ed). Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Hudson, R.A. 1996 Socio-linguistics. CUP

Auer, Peter (Ed) 1998. Code-switching in Conversation: Language Interaction and Identity. London: Routledge

Trudgill, P. 2002. Introduction to Language and Society

Wardhaugh, R. 2006. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Bertolo, S. (2001) Language Acquisition and Learnability. Cambridge: C.P.U

Crystal, D. (19.87). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge, New York. C.P.U

Foley, J and Thompson, L. (2003) Language Learning. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press

Garman, M. (1990) Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: C.P.U

McLaughlin, S. (1998) Introduction to Language Development. London: Singular Publishing Group

Narasimhan, R. (1998) Language Behavior. New Delhi: Sage Publication India

Sharma, A. (2002) Psychology of Language Learning. Delhi: Global Vision Pub. House

Steinberg, D. (1982) Psycholinguistics. London and New York: Longman

Tomasello, M and Bates, E. (2001) Language Development. London: Singular Pub. Group