Module code: LIN5221
Credits: 15.0
Semester: SEM1
Contact: Prof Devyani Sharma
This module will explore the consequences of simultaneous use of two (or more) languages in an individual or a community. The module covers aspects of societal bilingualism, including language planning, attitudes, language change through contact, code-switching, and bilingual identity. It also covers individual bilinguality, including experimental research in neurocognition, cognitive advantages or disadvantages of bilingualism, formal models of bilingual mental representations, debates over a critical age for language learning, effects of early and late bilingualism, and language attrition. Throughout the course, the interaction of cognitive and social forces will be emphasised, as will links to linguistic and sociolinguistic theory.
Connected course(s): UDF DATA
Assessment: 60.0% Coursework, 20.0% Examination, 20.0% Practical
Level: 5
