This video discusses the different approaches towards language, dialect, and variety. It provides several criteria of language definition as well as numerous problems involved.
Linguistics expert Tariq Rehman, explores why we are threatened by linguistic change while tracing the origins of the Urdu language and wants us to accept...
This unit discusses the different approaches towards dialectology and provides an overview of the studies into dialectal variation in English including the major problems and...
Rosie is a second year English Language and Sociolinguistics student in the department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. She explains her reasons...
Ellie is a final-year Sociolinguistics student at Lancaster University. She explains why she chose Lancaster and shares her experiences of being a student in the...