This class will be taught in a digital format. At this stage it is unclear whether it will be possible to return to a format of classroom presence during the

This class will be taught using materials posted online and
through video conferences (to be announced). To access the materials and
participate in video conferences, you need a device with an internet
connection, microphone, and camera.

Sociolinguistics is concerned with language in social andcultural context, especially how people with different social
identities (e.g.gender, age, race, ethnicity, class) speak and how their speech changes indifferent situations. In this class, we will focus on
these interrelationships,for example, how features of dialects (ways of pronouncing words, choice of words, patterns of words) cluster together
to form personal styles of speech.