To paraphrase and borrow from Louis XIV, the textbook is me. However, a quarter is short, I have a few prejudices and a lot of postjudices, and you need to be exposed to far more than me. We will also use these books: 
  

Text(s):	Required:
	Bonvillain, Nancy  1993 Language, Culture, and Communication, 2nd edition.
	Optional:
	Finegan, Edward.   1994 Language: Its Structure and Use, 2nd ed. (text in past Fall & Winter 230 & 231)   Chs: 6 Semantics. 7 Pragmatic 8 Universals 9 Historical Linguistics, esp Reconstructing the Past :255-67. 11 Speech Acts & Communication 12 Registers, esp :366-8 and 371-78. 13 Dialects esp Social Variation 419-36. 15 Writing

 We shall have a final examination and one to n preliminary examinations, the latter being probably takehome. 

In the event we do one of these in class, you will receive at least three calendar days notice. You will be given three to five days to do the takehomes, the time depending on the nature of the problem(s) and the day of initial distribution counting as the first day. These papers will be typed in some variety of standard English and will normally be due at the beginning of the class period on the due date. Papers coming in after that day will not be accepted except for good cause. The final exam may be takehome. A decision will be announced no later than two Mondays before finals week. If to be in class, it will be at the time appointed in the Schedule of Classes, euphem- istically and uninformingly known at UC as Learning Opportunities. The last day to withdraw from any class this quarter is Tuesday, 27 May. All students are responsible for all the material of the course, regardless of when you signed up and began attending. Tape or other recording devices are forbidden in class except by my express permission. 

 The Course Plan on the reverse is organized in chronological order. Like all course plans in all well monitored courses, it is tentative and subject to change if such seems in my judgement warranted or advised. You will of course be notified of any such alterations as we go. 

Anthropology 232         Language & Culture          Spring 1997         97-3         Joseph F Foster  COURSE PLAN

0.0 The Language and Culture Query.  B: Introduction

 0.1 Forward Review: Parts of Culture, Parts of Language  B: 2. (F 11: Revw or skim: 1, 6 & 7.)

0.2 Linguistic Rules: a. Structural dependency and semantic independence                          b. Can say v must say: Obligaions, Options, and consequential implications B: 2 F: 4 Morphology, 5 Syntax.

1.0 Words, Things, Symbols, Sentences, & Situations 

1.1 Characterization, Translation, World View.  B: 2: 29-32; Chs. 3, 4. F 6, 7, {11}

1.2 Speech Acts: Doing things with language.  B: 3. F: 11. (7).

2. Multidialecticity: Intra (Speech)Community variation.  B: 6, 7, 8, 13. F: 12, 13.

 3. Multilingualism and Multiglossia. Sprachbünde, Creoles, & Pidgins (not pigeons)  B: 11, 12. F: 12 & 13.

 4.0 Surrogates of Language and Language as Surrogate. 

4.1 Sign: American Plain and American Plains.  B: 2: 32-49.

4.2 Writing revisited. F: 15 

 4.3 The Music of Language – Drums, Bells, and Whistling a happy tune . 

4.4 The Language of Music – Solmization, or, how to know the score when there aint none.  Cainntaireachd & Piobaireachd in the Scottish Highlands

 5 Prehistorical Cultural Reconstruction: Practicing Prehistory with a Linguist’s License.  Patterns of Semantic Change. JFF: "Semantic Divergence". Handout.
   F: 9: 255 - 267.  Each syllabi the intellectual property of the author.