Course Overview

This course will cover language-related issues that emerge in multicultural societies and enable students to acquire basic knowledge about sociolinguistics, as well as reflect on diversity in society through issues such as stereotypes and gender.

Learning Achievement

1.Enable students to understand basic concepts related to sociolinguistics.
2.Enable students to understand and objectively analyze language and communication.
3.Enable a student to think independently and have opinions about coexistence in society and the issue of language.

Competence

Related to major competences: “1. Linguistic phenomena analytical ability” and “3. Intercultural problem-solving ability.”

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Students will be assessed based on an end-of-semester exam (60%), small assignments (20%), and a comment sheet submitted in each class (20%).

Course schedule

Language and gender
Language and gender
Language and stereotypes
Language and stereotypes
Language and social cognition
Language and social cognition
Japanese society as perceived through language
Japanese society as perceived through language
Japanese society as perceived through sentence patterns and styles
Japanese society as perceived through sentence patterns and styles
Japanese society as perceived through discourse

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Sawada Hiroko

Other information

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university