This course aims to provide students with explanation on the ways that language serves to define and maintain group identity and social relationships among speakers by searching for patterns in language use and by exploring how language use varies along lines of race, ethnicity, social class, gender, region and age. This course provides as well information on what happens when diverse groups of speakers come into contact with one another.
This course explores the two of the five components of a language: Phonology and Morphology. In Phonology,the students will be exposed to the different aspects of phonology which will deal with the vocal mechanism that are responsible for the production of sounds due to cultural factors. In Morphology, the students will be acquainted with the morphological features of English words and the different morphological processes on how people create a human language.