What's on Your Syllabus

Syllabus

Grades

Objectives

Textbooks

Recommended Reading

 


Syllabus

 

No. Date Content Reading Homework
1. 9/22 Introduction Nash 1 

Yule 3

  
2. 9/29  
3. 10/6 [Ex 1]

 [Preliminary reports due]

4. 10/13 Psycholinguistics Nash 2 

Yule 16

 
5. 10/20  
6. 10/27 [Ex 2]
7. 11/3  
  11/10 MIDTERM EXAM    
8. 11/17 Sociolinguistics Nash 3 

Yule 20 & 21

 
9. 11/24  
10. 12/1  
11. 12/8 [Reports]
12. 12/15 Phonetics & Phonology Nash 4

Yule 5 & 6

[Ex 3: Yule 236A]
13. 12/22  
14. 12/29 [Ex 4]
15. 1/5 Evaluation  
  1/12 FINAL EXAM    

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Grades

 

Midterm Exam 25%
Final Exam 25%
Report (in small groups) 30%
Exercises 15%
Question of the Week 5%

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Objectives

To learn:

  1. what linguistics is

  2. some basic knowledge in this field

  3. to think about language as a thing, apart from its everyday uses and meanings, so that we can understand what those uses and meanings are, and how they are achieved

  4. to examine our own beliefs about language, languages, and speakers

  5. to observe, and to analyze, and to write and talk about our observations and analyses

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Textbooks

Nash, Thomas. Discovering Language: An Introduction to Linguistics for Chinese Students.  Taipei:  The Crane, 1986.

Yule, George. The Study of Language (2nd ed.).  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

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Recommended Reading

Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.  2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.

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