printer friendly pageLINGUIST 141: Language and Gesture
History of work on gesture, gestural systems associated with particular languages/cultures, and with specific activities - music, sports, traffic management, stock exchanges, etc. Examine gesture developmentally and how gesture is represented in painting and animation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Clark, E. (PI)
LINGUIST 144: Minds and Machines (PHIL 99, PSYCH 35, SYMSYS 100)
An overview of the interdisciplinary study of cognition, information, communication, and language, with an emphasis on foundational issues: What are minds? What is computation? What are rationality and intelligence? Can we predict human behavior? Can computers be truly intelligent? How do people and technology interact, and how might they do so in the future? Lectures focus on how the methods of philosophy, mathematics, empirical research, and computational modeling are used to study minds and machines. Undergraduates considering a major in symbolic systems should take this course as early as possible in their program of study.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
LINGUIST 150: Language in Society
How language and society affect each other. Class, age, ethnic, and gender differences in speech. Prestige and stigma associated with different ways of speaking and the politics of language. The strategic use of language. Stylistic practice; how speakers use language to construct styles and adapt their language to different audiences and social contexts. Satisfies the WIM requirement for Linguistics if taken for 5units.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Eckert, P. (PI)
;
Pratt, T. (TA)
LINGUIST 155F: Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Language and Social Interaction (LINGUIST 255F)
Figures of personhood, personas, character types, and stereotypes in the study of linguistic variation. What are the significant differences among these types? Are these social types merely the vehicles through which social meanings travel or do they constitute the meanings themselves?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Podesva, R. (PI)
LINGUIST 156: Language and Gender (FEMGEN 156X)
The role of language in the construction of gender, the maintenance of the gender order, and social change. Field projects explore hypotheses about the interaction of language and gender. No knowledge of linguistics required.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
LINGUIST 157: Sociophonetics (LINGUIST 257)
The study of phonetic aspects of sociolinguistic variation and the social significance of phonetic variation. Acoustic analysis of vowels, consonants, prosody, and voice quality. Hands-on work on collaborative research project. Prerequisite: 110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Podesva, R. (PI)
LINGUIST 159: American Dialects
What is a dialect, and who speaks one? This course will focus on the fundamentals of linguistic study and dialectology through examinations of regional, social and ethnic dialects in the United States. The course will examine dialect variation on many linguistic levels, from variation in individual words (pop v. soda) to variation in how vowels are pronounced. Historical development of U.S. dialects, linguistic change, perceptual dialectology, and prestige and stigma of dialects will be discussed. Students will participate in real variation research to gain experience with quantitative data in examining the influence of social factors on dialect variation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
D'Onofrio, A. (PI)
;
Van Hofwegen, J. (PI)
LINGUIST 160: Introduction to Language Change
Principles of historical linguistics:, the nature of language change. Kinds and causes of change, variation and diffusion of changes through populations, differentiation of dialects and languages, determination and classification of historical relationships among languages, the reconstruction of ancestral languages and intermediate changes, parallels with cultural and genetic evolutionary theory, and implications of variation and change for the description and explanation of language in general. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Kiparsky, P. (PI)
LINGUIST 162: History Through Language
What we can learn about the human past through human language, especially where proper historical records are absent. Studying population migrations through language spread. Different types of change in different social environments: grammatical "simplification" of imperial languages vs. complexity of tribal languages. Effects of contact on languages. Methods for reconstructing linguistic past: comparative method, linguistic paleontology, computational phylogenetic methods.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
LINGUIST 163: History of the English Language
This course traces the history of the English language from its roots through its earliest written records into the present. It will trace the fundamental changes that English has undergone in terms of morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and vocabulary. It will also explore some of the social, cultural, and historical forces that affect language. The course emphasizes the pre-modern history of English.
Last offered: Autumn 2013
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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