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Language and Society

Language and Society. Instructor: Prof. Rajesh Kumar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Language is central to our existence. It is hard to think of ourselves, our societies, and culture without language. Language is a primary means of socialization. It interacts with the social, political and economic power structures. It is the primary medium for the construction and transmission of knowledge and for the articulation of ideas. In short, language constitutes humans and their identities. All people either utilize varieties of a language or use two or more languages to respond to a whole range of affective and interpersonal demands; language by definition must be defined as multilingualism. The primary objective of this course is to examine relationship between language and society with respect to the nature of language. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 07 - First Language Acquisition


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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Language and India
Lecture 03 - Language and a Language
Lecture 04 - Language, Dialect and Variety
Lecture 05 - Dialect and Standard Language
Lecture 06 - How do Children Learn Language?
Lecture 07 - First Language Acquisition
Lecture 08 - Critical Period and SLA
Lecture 09 - Sounds and Words
Lecture 10 - Sentence
Lecture 11 - India as a Linguistic Area
Lecture 12 - Language Variation
Lecture 13 - Language and Culture
Lecture 14 - Language and Power - Politics
Lecture 15 - Indian English
Lecture 16 - Fluidity and Continuum
Lecture 17 - Language in Education
Lecture 18 - Language and Scholastic Achievement
Lecture 19 - Language and Language Teaching
Lecture 20 - Concluding Remarks