the course aims at illustrating the basics of Present-day English with special reference to its geographical, social and textual varieties.
pre-requisite: B1 level of competence of English (according to the European framework).
PROGRAMME:
- Difference between synchrony and diachrony
- Change vs. variation
- Standard English
- Dialect and idiolect
- Principles of Sociolinguistics
- Register, slang, textual variety, and genre
- Speech acts and principles of pragmatics
- Diatopic variation
Written test and oral test
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