Sylabus
Program and rough topic outline:1) Intro meeting2) Concepts of bilingualism and multilingualism3) Multilingual communication, code-switching and mixing, translanguaging andcrossing4) Types of bilingual/multilingual situations, diglossia, language maintenance andshift5) Multilingualism in the workplace, in organizations and families6) Language diversity, linguistic minorities and language rights7) Multilingualism in the EU and in the world, autochthonous minorities vs.international migration8) Acquisition of bilingual competence, language attrition9) Multilingualism and cognitive development, the multilingual brain10) Bilingual education11) Selected topics based on student interest
112) Selected topics based on student interest
213) Wrapping up
Anotace
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with issues of bi- and multilingualism on the individual, group, organizational and societal levels, in the context of both territorial linguistic diversity and international migration.
Students will build upon the analytical skills they have acquired in other courses from areas including (but not limited to) sociolinguistics and the sociology of language (including language management and language communities), pragmatics, social psychology, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and language pedagogy.