Deutsche Sprache,bunte Sprache

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course examines the historical development of linguistic variation in the sphere of German-speaking countries and places these developments into conversation with issues of identity, equity, power, and policy in contemporary German-speaking societies. Students will complete an independent research project (e.g., interview, survey, corpus search, linguistic landscape) in order to document some aspect of linguistic diversity and explain/interpret the documented phenomena in terms of their effects on both individual speakers and societies at large.