Lecture 1 - Introduction to the course; language as seen from sociological and linguistic perspective; Historical account of the social-origin theory of language
Lecture 2 - Role of society on language use and speakers: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
Lecture 3 - Condillac, Vico and Herder
Lecture 4 - Other modern scholars of the social-origin theory of language
Lecture 5 - Some other domains: sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, ethnolinguistics, and pragmatics
Lecture 6 - What is language? How do languages and dialects get their labels ?
Lecture 7 - Regional and social variation: case studies from various Indian languages
Lecture 8 - Gender and age: key variables in language use and structure; role of underlying cultural construal
Lecture 9 - Ethnicity and social network
Lecture 10 - Language change
Lecture 11 - Style and register
Lecture 12 - Politeness strategies
Lecture 13 - Cross cultural communication; ethnographic accounts from different cultures
Lecture 14 - Performance of language: narratives and genres
Lecture 15 - Language and perception; social class and language, elaborate code vs restricted code
Lecture 16 - Language and Identities
Lecture 17 - Language attitude in multilingual communities
Lecture 18 - Language ideology
Lecture 19 - Language socialization
Lecture 20 - Case studies
Lecture 21 - Different types of contact: social, political, economic
Lecture 22 - Pidgins and creoles, post creole continuum
Lecture 23 - Mixed languages: reasons, grammar and cultural significance
Lecture 24 - Bi/multilingualism: reasons and types; social VS individual bilingualism, impact of bilingualism, Code switchig vs Code mixing
Lecture 25 - Linguistic Area (Sprachbunds), India as a linguistic area
Lecture 26 - Diglossia
Lecture 27 - Language maintenance, shift: different forces of assimilation leading to shift in language loyalty
Lecture 28 - Death and revitalization: repercussions of language death, language and cultural cognition; case studies of language revitalization and their impact
Lecture 29 - Discourse analysis; conversation analysis
Lecture 30 - Critical discourse analysis
Lecture 31 - Language policy and planning
Lecture 32 - Language in Mass communication
Lecture 33 - Language and Law
Lecture 34 - Discourse strategy used in Daily Communication
Lecture 35 - Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages
Lecture 36 - What is collective cognition? How is language related to collective cognition? Case studies and examples from different cultures
Lecture 37 - Supracultural models
Lecture 38 - Social cognition in discourse
Lecture 39 - Cognitive sociolinguistics
Lecture 40 - Social neuroscience and language: new findings on the neural signatures of language and social practices
