| Week | Date | Topic | Reading |
Homework (due the following Tuesday) |
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| 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 |
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) |
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| 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; |
4) Define a speech community (that you might study) |
| 9/21 | Regional variation in New England |
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| 5 | 9/26 | How to do research 1 | Chaika on fieldwork (PDF in Bb); review the Feagin article, too Laferriere (Liz) |
5) Chaika Ch. 7 Q's (choose any 3) |
| 9/28 |
Quantitative analysis Guest: Jim
Wood: Icelandic corpus study
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Thompson on gender differences (PDF in Bb) |
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| 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 |
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| 7 | 10/10 |
NO CLASS - COLUMBUS DAY
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| 10/12 | Language & gender |
continue with Bayley 2002; Wardhaugh Ch. 13 |
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) |
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| 10 |
10/31 |
African American Vernacular English | Wardhaugh Ch. 14 Jones (PDF in Bb) Henderson (Liz) |
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| 11/2 | Language, culture & school | Wolfram Ch. 1 & 4 | ||
| 11 | 11/7 |
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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||||
Contact the professor: Naomi Nagy 862-2783 or Email.
This page updated on Nov. 7, 2006.