Généralités

This module, Linguistics, is designed for third-year licence students and is offered as part of the fundamental unit in their degree programme. It introduces learners to key phenomena that characterise multilingual societies, with a particular focus on the Algerian context and other global settings. The module covers major topics such as diglossia, bilingualism, code switching, language borrowing, pidgins and creoles, globalisation and language planning, and shows how these concepts help explain real patterns of language use in everyday life, education, media and public institutions. Through lectures, guided discussion, and simple analytical activities, students learn to define and distinguish these notions, identify them in short authentic examples, and reflect on how social, political and economic factors influence language choice, linguistic change and the status of different languages and varieties in a given community. By the end of the course, students are expected to use basic sociolinguistic terminology with confidence, relate theoretical concepts to the Algerian situation, and develop a more informed and critical view of language issues in their professional and academic futures.