Language Culture and Society

SAINT MICHAEL COLLEGE OF HINDANG LEYTE INC.
A Bonifacio St., Poblacion II, Hindang Leyte

Website: smchindang.edu.ph
E-mail: [email protected]
I. Course Number : Major 2B
II. Course Title : Language, Culture and Society
III. Credit : 3 units
IV. Pre-requisite : Introduction to Linguistics
V. Course Description :
This course presents and elucidates the interconnectedness between language, culture and society. It is the aim of the course to direct
student to an in-depth and critical discussion on the major issues related to language, culture and society. Issues like culture and language
development, culture, language and verbal art, language and social relations, language and cultural identity, language, culture and
thought, language variation as well as language change will be discussed.
COURSE CONTENT
Period Strategies/
Specific Objectives Content/Outline Covered Activities Evaluation
1. Students will be able to explain how Language: Concept, Its Nature and Characteristics
language, whose primary function is to a. Defining Language
serve as an instrument of communication, b. The functions of Language
serves secondarily to help establish aspects c. the interconnectedness of language, culture and
of the social identity of its speakers. society
2. students will be able to list aspects of

social identity that correlate with linguistic
identity—national, ethnic, class,
geographical, sexual, educational—and
give specific examples of how these aspects
of social identity are supported or
reinforced by language use.
The languages of the world.

Students will be able to answer such
questions as: How many languages
are there in the world? How many
speakers do these languages have?
Where are they spoken?
Students learn how linguists have Language families

determined that certain groups of
languages are all descended from a
common ancestor. They will be able to
name the major families and the genetic
affiliations of the world’s major
languages.
Having learned something about the Theories of the origin of language

great number and diversity of
languages, students proceed to
consider questions like: How did
this multiplicity originate? How did
language itself originate?]
Students survey some of the First-language learning

ongoing research on the process
of children’s learning of their first
languages.
Students will be able to explain the status of Dialects, sociolects, registers. Assignment:
geographical variations in a language— Report on
dialects, as well as the social equivalent of bi-
such variation. They will gather data from dialectalism.
their own speech and that of their families
and peers, of how individual speakers
switch among varieties, and report on these
examples to the class.
Students will be able to give specific Multilingualism. Assignment:

examples of how a large portion of the Report on
world’s population live and function with observation
more than one language in their everyday of a
lives. bilingual.
Multilingual Speech Communities:
1. Languages and dialects,

2. National languages and language planning,
3. Diglossia,
4. linguistic minorities,
5. pidgins and creoles,
6. code-switching and code-mixing
7. language maintenance and shift: language
‘choice’, language loss and endangerment,
language maintenance, revitalisation and
revival, language and globalization
1. sociolinguistic variation: class, gender,

region, age; language change
2. language attitudes and beliefs; language,

culture, ethnicity and identity; language and
discrimination
3.
Students will be able to define and give Pidgins and Creoles
specific examples of: a) standard 1. standard languages,
languages, b) pidgins, c) creoles. They will 2. pidgins,
be able to describe how a creole develops 3. creoles
from a pidgin and list specific criteria
needed for a language variety to be
considered standard. They will give
examples showing that pidgins and creoles
may fill a need in situations where no
standard language is available.
Students consider the role of language and Languages and world communication: Artificial
the challenge posed by the great diversity and world languages.
of languages in an increasingly globalized language and communication:social
world society. They will be able to list and networks,
describe some attempts to address this the ethnography of communication,
situation with the creation of international style and register, speech functions and
artificial languages and the possible use of politeness,
existing languages as international cross-cultural communication and
languages. pragmatics, accommodation theory,
discourse analysis, language and the media.
Pidgins and creoles. Crystal: 55
4. Students will be able to define and give specific examples of: a) standard languages, b) pidgins, c) creoles. They will be able to
describe how a creole develops from a pidgin and list specific criteria needed for a language variety to be considered
standard. They will give examples showing that pidgins and creoles may fill a need in situations where no standard language
is available.]
13 Crystal: 56-59
Students consider the role of language and the challenge posed by the great diversity of languages in an increasingly globalized world
society. They will be able to list and describe some attempts to address this situation with the creation of international artificial
languages and the possible use of existing languages as international languages.

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SAINT MICHAEL COLLEGE OF HINDANG LEYTE INC.

A Bonifacio St., Poblacion II, Hindang Leyte

I. Course Number : Major 2B

II. Course Title : Language, Culture and Society

III. Credit : 3 units

IV. Pre-requisite : Introduction to Linguistics

2. students will be able to list aspects of

The languages of the world.

Students learn how linguists have Language families

Having learned something about the Theories of the origin of language

Students survey some of the First-language learning

Students will be able to give specific Multilingualism. Assignment:

1. Languages and dialects,

1. sociolinguistic variation: class, gender,

2. language attitudes and beliefs; language,

Pidgins and creoles. Crystal: 55

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