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3.00 Credits
Language beyond the sentence. Global and local properties of connected speech and writing. Narrative structures, new and old information, subjects and topics, foregrounding and backgrounding, etc.
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4.00 Credits
Methods of reconstruction. Types and explanations of language change. Dialectology. The establishment of language relationships and subgroupings.
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3.00 Credits
The principles and methods of sociolinguistics. Topics to be covered include linguistic pragmatics, variation theory, social and regional dialectology, and oral styles.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover various pidgins and creoles of the world, examining their linguistic and sociohistorical significance, as well as their use in the modern world.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the major ways in which the English language has changed over the past 1,200 years. Students will be expected to learn and be able to apply a few basic linguistic concepts in order to understand better the developments we observe. We will investigate data from both literary and non-literary texts.
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1.00 Credits
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen.
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4.00 Credits
A general survey of the field of linguistics. Students are introduced to a wide range of data from diverse languages to basic principles of linguistic analysis.
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3.00 Credits
The political uses of language. Dialects, prestige forms, bureaucratese, male and female language, politeness and indirectness, language planning, bilingualism, language attitudes. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students.
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4.00 Credits
An analysis of contemporary liberal and conservative thought and language, in terms of the basic mechanisms of mind: frames, prototypes, radial categories, contested concepts, conceptual metaphor, metonymy, and blends. The framing of political discourse. The logic of political thought. The purpose of the course is to provide students interested in political and social issues with the tools to analyze the framing of, and logic behind, contemporary political discourse. Also listed as Cognitive Science C104.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores the relation of language and thought. Is language uniquely human, and if so, what does this reveal about the human mind? Does the particular language you speak affect the way you think, or do human languages reflect a universal conceptual repertoire? The goal of this class is to familiarize you with a set of classic arguments on these themes, together with current research that evaluates these arguments, through weekly reading and discussion. Also listed as Cognitive Science C142.
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