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Departmental Editor2023-10-27T17:08:59+08:00LING2066 Variation Analysis Dr. Jonathan Havenhill Advanced Course. Sem 2 , 6 credits Course Description Language is inherently variable. No two people speak the same way, nor does one person use the same speech patterns in all contexts. This type of variation is not random, but structured, and depends on the identities of the speaker and their audience, the topic of conversation, the speaker’s attitude, and a variety of other social and linguistic factors. This course will introduce students to the field of variationist sociolinguistics, which is concerned with the systematic study of language variation and its relationship to linguistic structure [...]