This pedagogical book is designed for first-year Master's students, exploring the connection between language and society through six units. Each unit features five lectures on various sociolinguistic topics, particularly relevant to the Algerian context. Topics include social aspects of language, key concepts like dialects, variationist sociolinguistics, language categories related to social variables, language contact dynamics, and sociolinguistics in discourse. Each lecture includes objectives, explanations, comprehension tasks, and further reading suggestions. The book aims to provide students with essential linguistic knowledge for advanced study in language studies.
Unit One: Introduction to Language and Society
Unit Two: Language Varieties Part I
Unit Three: Language Varieties Part II
Unit Four: Language: Categories, Cultural Studies, and Learning
Unit Five: Language Development in a Multilingual Context
Unit Six: Sociolinguistics and Discourse