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Basic Information:
This course provides an introduction to the field of linguistics from an anthropological perspective. Topics to be covered include: language origins, development and change; multilingualism, code-switching, language variation; verbal art, and applied linguistics. The primary emphasis will be theoretical, based on a reading of the literature, but a secondary focus will be methodological, learning how to do the kinds of research read about in the literature. Textbooks:
Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1986. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press. Articles:
Exams, Assignments and Grading:
Summaries: Four brief article summaries will be required. Summaries should be less than a single page in length and include: 1) an overview of the main point; 2) a brief summary of the content, including selected details; and 3) an evaluative comment on the significance of the article. Summaries will be evaluated only on the degree to which they adequately and clearly represent the content of the articles -- not on writing style. I will hand out an example of an acceptable summary early in the semester for use as a guide. Summaries are due on the day the articles are discussed in class and will not be accepted late. Projects: Four short linguistic analysis projects will be assigned. Each project will require analysis of some linguistic data and a brief written essay. These projects will be explained in detail as they are assigned. See below for due dates -- project essays will not be accepted late. Exams: There will be a mid-term and a cumulative final exam. Exams will consist of multiple choice and short-essay questions, testing mastery of the key concepts introduced in the course. The mid-term exam will be held in-class on the Thursday before Spring Break. Date and time for the final exam are determined by the registrar. Lecture Topics and Readings:
* Bernstein, Basil. [1970]. "Social Class, Language and Socialization." In Giglioli. (pp. 157-178) Blom, Jan-Petter and John Gumperz. 1972. "Social Meaning in Linguistic Structures: Code-Switching in Norway." In Gumperz, J. and D. Hymes (eds). Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (pp. 407-434) Boas, Franz. 1995 [1911]. "Introduction to the Handbook of American Indian Languages." In Language, Culture, and Society: A Book of Readings, edited by B. Blount. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland. (pp. 9-28) * Eckert, Penelope. 1988. "Adolescent Social Structure and the Spread of Linguistic Change." Language in Society 17:183-207. * Ferguson, Charles. [1959]. "Diglossia." In Giglioli. (pp.232-251) Gal, Susan. 1984. "Peasant Men Can't Get Wives: Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community." In Baugh, J. and J. Sherzer (eds). Language in Use: Readings in Sociolinguistics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (pp. 292-304) * Gardner, Carol Brooks. 1984. "Passing By: Street Remarks, Address Rights, and the Urban Female." In Baugh, J. and J. Sherzer (eds). Language in Use: Readings in Sociolinguistics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (pp. 148-164) Gumperz, John. 1982. "Ethnic Style in Political Rhetoric." In Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. (pp. 187-203) Haas, Mary. 1944. "Men's and Women's Speech in Koasati." Language 20:142-149. Heath, Shirley Brice. 1982. "What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and School." Language in Society 11:49-76. Keenan (Ochs), Elinor. 1974. "Norm-makers, Norm-breakers: Use of Speech by Men and Women in a Malagasy Community." In Bauman, R. and J. Sherzer (eds). Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. (pp.125-143) Labov, William. 1982. "Objectivity and Commitment in Linguistic Science: The Case of the Black English Trial in Ann Arbor." Language in Society 11:165-201. -------. [1972]. "The Logic of Nonstandard English." In Giglioli. (pp. 179-215) -------. 1972. "The Social Motivation of a Sound Change." In Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (pp. 1-42). McConnell-Ginet, Sally. 1984. "Language and Gender." In Newmeyer, F. (ed). Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey, vol. 4. (pp.75-99) Ochs, Elinor and Bambi Schieffelin. 1984. "Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and their Implications." In Shweder, R. and R. LeVine (eds). Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion. New York: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 276-320) * Padilla, Amado M. 1991. "English Only vs. Bilingual Education: Ensuring a Language-Competent Society." Journal of Education 173 (2): 38-51. Philips, Susan. 1976. "Some Sources of Cultural Variability in the Regulation of Talk." Language in Society 5:81-95. * Sacks, Harvey. 1974. "An Analysis of the Course of a Joke's Telling in Conversation." In Bauman, R. and J. Sherzer (eds). Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. (pp. 337-353) Sapir, Edward. 1995 [1933]. "Language." In Language, Culture, and Society: A Book of Readings, edited by B. Blount. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. (pp. 43-63) * Trudgill, Peter. 1974. "Linguistic Change and Diffusion: Description and Explanation in Sociolinguistic Dialect Geography." Language in Society 3:215-246. -------. 1972. "Sex, Covert Prestige and Linguistic Change in the Urban British English of Norwich." Language in Society 1:179-195. * Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1956. "The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language." In Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Woolard, Kathryn A. "Sentences in the Language Prison: The Rhetorical Structuring of an American Language Policy Debate." American Ethnologist: 268-278. Zimmerman, D. and C. West. 1975. "Sex Roles, Interruptions and Silences in Conversation." In Thorne, B. and N. Henley (eds), Language & Sex: Difference and Dominance. Rowley, MA: Newbury House. (pp.105-129) Project 2: Conversational Structure & Narrative Project 3: Gender Differences Project 4: Social Dialects Each syllabi the intellectual property of the author. |
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