LING 3019 - Languages in the C21: Cultural Contact & New Words
Career: | Undergraduate |
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Units: | 3 |
Term: | 3910 |
Campus: | North Terrace |
Contact: | Up to 3 hours per week |
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange: | Yes |
Available for Non-Award Study: | Yes |
Pre-Requisite: | At least 6 units of Level II undergraduate study |
Incompatible: | LING 2049 |
Assessment: | Mid-point assignment (500 word) 20%, Tutorial oral presentation 25%, Post-presentation paper (4000 word) 45%, Attendance & contribution 10% |
Syllabus: |
The study of words may be tedious to the school-boy, as breaking of stones is to the wayside labourer, but to the thoughtful eye of the geologist these stones are full of interest – he sees miracles on the high road, and reads chronicles in every ditch. (Max Müller 1871, Lectures on the Science of Language, London: Longman, Green; vol. I, p. 2) This multifaceted course will introduce students to a range of mechanisms through which new words and meanings are concocted in the modern world. It will explore borrowing ('stealing', or more accurately 'copying'), word-formation, neologization, calquing (loan translation), phono-semantic matching, lexical engineering, semantic shifting of pre-existent words, descriptiveness, purism and etymythology (popular etymology). It will focus on phenomena of lexical expansion and semantic enrichment that are based on contact between cultures and languages. The course will combine sociolinguistic insight with philological expertise, thus being polychronic, i.e. simultaneously diachronic and synchronic. We shall integrate innovative etymological, morphological, ecological and cultural analyses of words in various languages such as English, Mandarin Chinese, Israeli (a.k.a. Modern Hebrew), Japanese, Icelandic, Turkish, Estonian, Yiddish, Australian Aboriginal languages, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, creoles, minority and endangered languages. (No prior knowledge of any language other than English is required.) |
Course Fees
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EFTSL | |||
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0.125 |
Course Outline
A Course Outline which includes Learning Outcomes, Learning Resources, Learning & Teaching for this course may be accessed here
Critical Dates
Term | Last Day to Add Online | Census Date | Last Day to WNF | Last Day to WF |
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3910 | Mon 18/03/2019 | Sun 31/03/2019 | Fri 10/05/2019 | Fri 14/06/2019 |
Class Details
Enrolment Class: Lecture | |||||||
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Class Nbr | Section | Size | Available | Dates | Days | Time | Location |
11973 | LE01 | 30 | 13 | 5 Mar - 9 Apr | Tuesday | 12pm - 2pm | Napier, G03, Lecture Theatre |
30 Apr - 11 Jun | Tuesday | 12pm - 2pm | Napier, G03, Lecture Theatre | ||||
Related Class: Tutorial | |||||||
Class Nbr | Section | Size | Available | Dates | Days | Time | Location |
11975 | TU04 | 10 | FULL | 6 Mar - 10 Apr | Wednesday | 11am - 12pm | Lower Napier, LG23, Teaching Room |
1 May - 12 Jun | Wednesday | 11am - 12pm | Lower Napier, LG23, Teaching Room | ||||
18622 | TU05 | 11 | 4 | 7 Mar - 11 Apr | Thursday | 2pm - 3pm | Ligertwood, 316, Teaching Room |
2 May - 13 Jun | Thursday | 2pm - 3pm | Ligertwood, 316, Teaching Room |