LING 110: LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION

Exploring Language

Week No &Starting date	Lecture Number	Lecturer	Lecture Topic	Text Book Sections	Text Book Chapters	Tutorial Topic
2 Aug Week 1	1a	JP	Introduction	1, 2, 4	1 - Popular ideas about language	No tutorial
2 Aug Week 1	1b	JP	Language and Social Identity	6, 7, 10	2 - Language and identity
9 Aug. Week 2	2a	JT	Language and Thought	5	1	Language and Social Identity
9 Aug. Week 2	2b	VR	Language and culture	8, 9	2	Language and Social Identity
16 Aug. Week 3	3a	PP	Semantics: word networks	17-18	3 - The structure of language	Language and Thought
16 Aug. Week 3	3b	PP	Semantics: words in context	20-21	3	Language and Thought
23 Aug. Week 4	4a	JP	Australian Englishes			Semantics
23 Aug. Week 4	4b	JN	Auslan and The Deaf			Semantics
30 Aug. Week 5	5a	PP	Morphology	16 (p90)		Australian Englishes Students receive essay topics
30 Aug. Week 5	5b	SS	Grammar: grammatical concepts	16 (p93)		Australian Englishes Students receive essay topics
6 Sep. Week 6	6a	SS	Grammar: syntagm and paradigm			Morphology
6 Sep. Week 6	6b	SS	Grammar: clause structure	16 (pp95-99)	3	Morphology
13 Sep. Week 7	7a	SS	Grammar: clause relations			Grammar Exercise 1 due
13 Sep. Week 7	7b	DM	First and Second Language Acquisition			Grammar Exercise 1 due

Week No &Starting date	LectureNumber	Lecturer	Lecture Topic	Text Book Sections	Text Book Chapters	Tutorial Topic
4 Oct. Week 8	8a	LC	Psycholinguistics	38-44	7 - Child language aquisition	Grammar
4 Oct. Week 8	8b	LC	Reading development and disorders	45-46	8 - Language brain and handicap
11 Oct Week 9	9a	PR	Brain and Language			Psycholinguistics Exercise 2 due
11 Oct Week 9	9b	FC	Sounds of Speech (Phonetics)			Psycholinguistics Exercise 2 due
18 Oct. Week 10	10a	FC	Consonants	22, 27	4 - The medium of language: speaking and listening	Brain and Language Essay due Mon 18 Oct.
18 Oct. Week 10	10b	FC	Vowels	27	4	Brain and Language Essay due Mon 18 Oct.
25 Oct. Week 11	11a	FC	Phonology	28-29	4	Phonetics
25 Oct. Week 11	11b	RF	The beginnings of modern linguistic theory	65 (esp p 411) and 17	11 - Language and communication	Phonetics
1 Nov. Week 12	12a	RF	Speech Acts			Phonology Exercise 3 due
1 Nov. Week 12	12b	JP	Computer Mediated Communication			Phonology Exercise 3 due
8 Nov. Week 13	13a	VR	Language choice	364-65, 42	7	Computer Mediated Communication Students bring revision questions
8 Nov. Week 13	13b	JP	Talk at work: Linguistic Diversity

Text book section numbers are from David Crystal’s Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (2 nd ed. 1997).