The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) track prepares students for such professional careers as language educators and language consultants in different institutional settings, as well as for advanced academic study in SLS, applied linguistics, and related social sciences. This track takes the view that social life is fundamentally an interactional and discursive accomplishment. It examines how situated interaction interrelates with language use and how (language) learning, language variation and change emerge through interaction. A prominent line of inquiry is the interactional organization of educational settings and other institutions and its connections with macrostructural levels of social organization. This track intends to foster knowledge about and research capabilities in a range of domains, topics, and research approaches, including: language use in multilingual societies; language variation and change; pidgins, creoles, and non-standard varieties; English as an international language; hybrid discourses; codeswitching; language ideology; language and social identity, sociolinguistics and social theory; language socialization; discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and, pragmatics.

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Master of Arts in Second Language Studies - Language and Social Interaction

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