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LO1: Critically evaluate the complex relationship between language and society, focusing on how linguistic features such as the Japanese system of honorification are shaped by sociocultural and extralinguistic factors.  

LO2: Formulate a critical framework that maps your language-learning trajectory, using it to evaluate how both your mother tongue and target foreign language structurally index social relations, hierarchies, and fluid sociocultural identities. 

LO3: Synthesize theories of sociolinguistics to develop an informed, critical attitude toward the academic study and practical deployment of a foreign language.