Fall 2006, E. Johnson, ENG 204

Tentative list of topics, videos, and readings

M 8/21 Welcome; Video: Signs of Apes, Songs of Whales

W 8/23 1-19: What is Language?

F 8/25 45-52: Dictionaries (meet in library)

M 8/28 19-28 and 33-38: Language Change

W 8/30 38-46 and 52-56: Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Views

F 9/1 Video: American Tongues

M 9/4 Labor Day

W 9/6 64-75: Consonants

89-92: Spelling

F 9/8 75-79: Vowels

M 9/11 Phonetic Transcription Practice

W 9/13 79-89: Phonology

F 9/15 Phonetic Transcription Quiz

101-113: Morphology

M 9/18 113-124: Word Formation Processes

W 9/20 Videos: Slanguistics, The History of Slang

F 9/22 Review for Exam 1

M 9/25 Exam 1

W 9/27 129-146: Open Lexical Categories

F 9/29 146-160: Closed Lexical Categories

M 10/2 Grammar Exercises

W 10/4 Video: Colorless Green Ideas

F 10/6 Mountain Day: No Class

M 10/9 166-180: Chomsky

W 10/11 Diagramming Exercises

F 10/13 181-194: Complex Sentences

M 10/16 Fall Break

W 10/18 Video: He Said She Said

F 10/20 242-244 and 269-273: Discourse and Gender

M 10/23 249-258: Sociolinguistic Competence

W 10/25 258-269: Conversational Analysis

F 10/27 Review for Exam 2

M 10/30 Exam 2

W 11/1 320-340: Child Language Acquisition

F 11/3 Video: Playing the Language Game

M 11/6 341-352: Second Language Acquisition

W 11/8 Videos: Georgia Project; Sheltered Instruction

F 11/10 Reading on reserve: TBA

M 11/13 Video: Black on White

W 11/15 417-425: African-American Vernacular English

F 11/17 3 articles from website on Ebonics

386-388: Code-Switching

M 11/20 Video: TBA

W 11/22 Thanksgiving

F 11/24 Thanksgiving

M 11/27 392-417: American Regional Dialects

W 11/29 477-492: Official Language Laws

F 12/1 Video: Next Year’s Words

M 12/4 492-505: English around the World

W 12/6 Last day of classes: Review for Exam 3