This course explores the system of ideas that pertains to social and linguistic relations. Ideology, as a systemic body of ideas in a society, is embodied in

the sociolinguistic structure of any given society. Thus, this course links language and ideology in order to explore the connections between discourse and

society as well as issues related to language and development of ideologies in society. Areas studied will include issues related to power and solidarity, language

and socio-political issues, and influence of ideology on daily texts and talk. Students are also taken through processes of analysing systemic ideological discourse

(e.g. institutional discourse) in order to recognise implied meanings and competing social values present in such discourses.