LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY COURSE OUTLINE SESSION ONE: Course Outline; Language and Society SESSION TWO: Language Change SESSION THREE: Language and gender SESSION FOUR: Language and power SESSION FIVE: Research in Sociolinguistics (1) SESSION SIX: Research in Sociolinguistics (2) SESSION SEVEN: Research in Sociolinguistics (3) SEMINAR READING SEMINAR One: Wardhaugh, R. (2006). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics London: Blackwell. Pp.9-17 SEMINAR Two: Simpson, P. (1993) Language, Ideology and Point of view. London: Routledge. pp.
How to write a reference list 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 Definitions of phrases used within this section Referencing a book Referencing a chapter in an edited book Referencing a journal article Referencing a publication by a government agency Referencing an Act of Government/ Bill Referencing a dictionary/directory/encyclopaedia Referencing an open learning package Referencing a video Referencing unpublished sources / theses / dissertations Referencing a personal communication Referencing reprints Referencing a newspaper 5 5 5 6 6 7 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 6.14 Referencing from the Internet and other electronic sources 6.14.1 6.14.2 6.14.3 Referencing a journal article from the Internet Referencing a World Wide Web (www) page Databases 10 10 11 11 12 12 12 13 6.15 Referencing tables and figures 6.15.1 6.15.2 6.15.3 Table developed by the writer / author Table from another source Figure taken from another source References 1. Introduction Referencing is the means by
The article examines ways in which Aphasia and other neurological deficits lead to language impairments that shape the production, reception, and processing of language. The book: Brain Sense: The science of the Senses and how we process the world around us Author(s) name(s): (Last name, first initial) Brynie, F Year of publication: ____________06/2009__________________________________________ Title of the book: ________Brain sense_______________________________________________ Publisher: ____Amacom Books_________________________________________________ City and State of Publication (if the book is published out of the country provide the City and Country of Publication): ___Saranac lake, New York ____________________________________________ 1) What is the book about? The book is based on a lot of interviews with renowned scientist of everyday experiences to illustrate how our brains process the world around us. 2) What information did you
Thomas Debney W1254537 Assignment 1 Principles of Language Change [word count: 3,300] Explain how language contact, due to either migration or invasion, can promote language change. Draw your examples from the contact between English and two other languages of your choice. The primary concern of this essay is to investigate the impact that two foreign languages have had upon the English language, as the result of direct contact. To assess this claim, I will be focusing on the languages of Old Norse and Norman French (hereafter, Norse and French, respectively). Both of these languages greatly influenced how English underwent seismic grammatical changes, leading to its development from the synthetic/fusional complexity of Old English, into the simpler analytic/isolating structure of Middle English.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English Volume 14 | Issue 1 Article 4 1-1-2012 Anticipative Feminism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise and Flappers and Philosophers Andrew Riccardo Messiah College Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/tor Part of the American Literature Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, and the Literature in English, North America Commons Recommended Citation Riccardo, Andrew (2013) "Anticipative Feminism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise and Flappers and Philosophers," The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 4. Available at: http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/tor/vol14/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons.
M.A. Applied Linguistics/TESOL (Distance Learning) Language, Discourse and Society Genre, Register & Style in Children’s Literature, with Specific Reference to Roald Dahl's Matilda Contents Page |1. Introduction and Context |3 | |2. Linguistics, Socio-linguistics & Discourse Analysis |3 | |3. Discourse and Text |4 | |4.
LIN 330 Introduction to Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition Instructor: Dr. Irma Alarcón Office: Greene Hall 549 Office phone: x5194 E-mail: alarcoi@wfu.edu Office hours: TBA COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides an introduction to the field of psycholinguistics, which is the discipline that explores the psychological processes underlying the acquisition, production, and comprehension of language. Focus questions include: How do we acquire our native language? Considering the limited input, how do children learn to make the most subtle grammatical distinctions? Is language an exclusively human phenomenon? If not, to what extent do other species exhibit linguistic systems?
The Cultural and Political Turn in Translation Studies Table of Contents Introduction 1. Cultural Turn in Translation Studies 1.1 Andre Lefevere 1.2 Lawrence Venuti 2. Translation and Gender: Women’s Voice in Translated Literature 3. Postcolonial Theory and Criticism of Western Feminists 3.1 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 4. The Establishment of a Marxist Literary Theory: Ahmad Aijaz Conclusion INTRODUCTION The interest of cultural studies in translation has ultimately taken translation studies away from linguistics analysis and painstaking source text - target text comparison, and brought it in contact with other disciplines such as political science, history and so on.
Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. 2. Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly discipline of (1) analyzing and (2) describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, (3) developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking (a) the data in dictionaries, (b) the needs for information by users in specific types of situation, and (c) how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and electronic dictionaries. This is sometimes referred to as 'metalexicography'. 3 1.
Abstract The article “The Culture-Cognitive Connection,” written by Lea Winerman, explained the recent research on Westerners and East Asians and the differences in their cognitive processes based on their heritage. Psychologist Richard Nisbett, PhD (2006) researched East Asians and Western Americans and the differences in the ways they view the world. The studies are based on how the people’s cultural backgrounds affect their cognitive processes such as categorization, learning, causal reasoning, and even attention and perception. There are examples of case studies, from simple to complex observations, giving evidence to the connection. A Review of “The Culture-Cognition Connection” In the Culture and Cognition Program at the University of Michigan, psychologist Richard Nisbett, PhD (2005), and his colleagues study how people’s cultural backgrounds affect their basic cognitive processes.