TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Learn the main concepts of sociolinguistics. 2) Learn how to analyze language in relation to society. 3) Understand the social motivation of language change and variants in languages.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	No
COURSE DEFINITION	This course deals with the relationship between society and language. The main objective of the course is to discuss the problems of sociolinguistics such as multilingualism, local and social varieties in language, taboo in language, ways of addressing to people, language and gender, loss of language, language planning, the formation of standard language etc.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Main sources 2nd Week Language and society 3rd Week Standard language, dialect, variety 4th Week Regional varieties, social varieties 5th Week Pidgin, creol 6th Week Other language forms 7th Week Speech communities 8th Week Midterm 9th Week Solidarity and politeness 10th Week Language and gender 11th Week Language planning 12th Week Language planning in Turkey 13th Week Language planning in Turkey 14th Week Language planning in Turkey
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Demir, Nurettin ve Emine Yılmaz. Türk Dili El Kitabı. Ankara: Grafiker Yayınları, 2003. İmer, Kamile. Türkiye'de Dil Planlaması: Türk Dil Devrimi. Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, 1998. Lewis, Geoffrey. Trajik Başarı: Türk Dil Reformu. İstanbul: Gelenek Yayınları, 2004. Nettle, Daniel ve Suzanne Romaine. Kaybolan Sesler. İstanbul: Oğlak Yayınları, 2002. Wardhaugh, Ronald. An Introduction to Sociolinguistic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Project,Presentation,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Total(%) 30 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 30 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 70 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No