The University of the West Indies, Mona

This course covers the full range of types of language situations, including bilingual, multilingual, diglossic and Creole continuum. It looks at the range of functions that particular languages can perform in a speech community, for example, official, standard, private, public, etc. and examines, as well, how language attitudes are formed. The entire course is supported by references to case studies from language situations around the world.