Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis The German language as a productive area of investigation will be examined from a sociolinguistic perspective. Issues of language and society, politics and education will be discussed. The new role of the German language in a socio-culturally and politically much changed Europe will be addressed in detail, with particular relevance to questions of language and national identity, pluricentricity and diglossia, the German language and German unity, migrant German and foreigner German, and the national and international status of the German language.
Assessment Written (7000 words): 70% + Examination (2 hours): 30%