| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading
Everyone read the items in blue for THIS DAY's
class.
Only the presenter needs to really digest the items in orange. |
Homework
(due the following Tuesday) |
| 1 |
8/29 |
Introduction |
Wardhaugh Ch. 1 |
1) 10 variables; listen to IPA online |
| 8/31 |
Sociolinguistics & teaching |
McGroarty |
|
| 2 |
9/5 |
Language, dialects & varieties |
Wardhaugh Ch. 2
Cooke (PDF in Bb) |
2) Cooke Q's or write your linguistic autobiography |
| 9/7 |
New England dialects 1 |
Nagy (You can download
the PDF, but it's also in the packet) |
|
| 3 |
9/12
(Election Day) |
Choosing a code |
Wardhaugh Ch. 4 to p. 101 |
3) Algonquian data |
| 9/14 |
Apparent Time Construct & Speech communities & Networks |
Wardhaugh Ch. 5; Feagin
Bailey et al. (Naomi) |
|
| Friday 9/15: Last day for Add/Drop without
a fee. |
| 4 |
9/19 |
Regional variation
American Tongues & Canadian English videos |
Wardhaugh Ch 6 to p. 146;
Horvath & Horvath
(Emily)
|
4) Define a speech community (that you might study) |
| 9/21 |
Regional variation in New England
|
Pablé & Dylewski
talk at BU, 5:00 p.m.
|
|
| 5 |
9/26 |
How to do research 1 |
Chaika on fieldwork (PDF in Bb); review the Feagin article, too
Laferriere (Liz)
Boberg 2001 (Jim) |
5)
Chaika Ch. 7 Q's (choose any 3) |
| 9/28 |
Quantitative analysis Guest: Jim
Wood: Icelandic corpus study
|
Thompson on gender differences (PDF in Bb)
|
|
| 6 |
10/3 |
Social variation |
Wardhaugh Ch. 6 from p. 146 to the end,
Labov Ch. 1
Kroch (Vee) |
6)
Chaika Ch. 8 Q's (2, 3, 4) (PDF with questions
is in Bb) due 10/12 |
| 10/5 |
How to do research 2
|
Labov Ch. 1, cont., Bayley 2002,Young & Bayley
to p. 260
|
|
| 7 |
10/10 |
NO CLASS - COLUMBUS DAY
|
|
| 10/12 |
Language & gender |
continue with Bayley 2002;
Wardhaugh Ch. 13
Macauley
Cobb (PDF
in Bb)
|
7)
Kansas City data |
| Mid-semester |
| 8 |
10/17 |
More on gender |
Dunbar (Kristen)
Tannen
Gal (Julie) |
8)
Chaika Ch. 10 Q's (1 or 3) (PDF with
questions is in Bb) |
| 10/19 |
Research projects |
Discuss & brainstorm in class |
|
| 9 |
10/24 |
Some great studies of variation |
Wardhaugh Ch. 7
Foulkes & Docherty (Naomi) -- Please read! |
9) Abstract for term project (Don't skip this homework.) |
| 10/26 |
Variation & phonological theory |
Guy (Naomi) -- Phonologists, please read.
Guy & Boberg (Katsunori) |
|
| 10 |
10/31 |
African American Vernacular
English |
Wardhaugh Ch. 14
Jones (PDF
in Bb)
Henderson (Liz)
Smitherman (presenter) |
10) Wardhaugh Ch. 14; 1, 3
|
| 11/2 |
Language, culture & school |
Wolfram Ch. 1 & 4 |
|
| 11 |
11/7
(Election Day) |
Language change |
Wardhaugh Ch. 8
Eckert (Emily)
Sankoff, Blondeau & Charity (Kristen) |
11) linguistics in school (DUE 11/21) |
| 11/9 NWAV (no class) |
| 12 |
11/14 |
Pidgins & creoles |
Wardhaugh Ch. 3; Nichols Ch. 3 |
1st paper due
11/14 |
| 11/16 |
Style |
Bell & Johnson (Jim)
Rickford & McNair Knox (presenter) |
|
| 13 |
11/21
|
Attitude |
Niedzielski 1996 (presenter)
Niedzielski 1999 (presenter)
|
12) Irish data; create method for studying style or attitude |
| 11/23 Thanksgiving Day (no
classes) |
| 14 |
11/28 |
Catch-up day |
|
|
| 11/30 |
Summary |
Wardhaugh Ch. 16 |
|
| 15 |
12/5 |
Presentations of your research projects |
Post evaluations, comments and questions
for other students' projects in Bb |
| 12/7 |
| FINAL
PROJECTS DUE Thursday Dec. 14 by noon. |
| Final Exam Friday, Dec. 15 3:30-5:30 |
