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| IDE6130 | Language and Culture | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | none | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | This course will explore the complex, often inexplicit relationship between language and culture. We will investigate a variety of topics which are drawn from the fields of anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics. The course will begin with a general overview of what constitutes language. We will then turn to examine the different proposed hypotheses which attempt to account for the nature of the relationship between language and culture. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | explore the complex, often inexplicit relationship between language and culture. | 5,6,8,11,13 | | | PO - 2 : | investigate a variety of topics which are drawn from the fields of anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics | 5,7,10,13 | | | PO - 3 : | acquire a general overview of what constitutes language | | | | PO - 4 : | examine the different proposed hypotheses which attempt to account for the nature of the relationship between language and culture | 7 | | | PO - 5 : | explore language in its social context | | | | PO - 6 : | use language to create different personae | | | | PO - 7 : | explore how are social and linguistic roles acquired by children. | | | | PO - 8 : | explore how language is used by people of different genders, ethnicities, and social classes. | | | | PO - 9 : | explore how social and linguistic roles are acquired by children. | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Bonvillain, Nancy. (2003) Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Shopen, Timothy. (1990) Languages and Their Speakers. Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 2: The Form of the Message | | | Week 3 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 2: The Form of the Message
In Shopen, Craig: Jacaltec: Field Work in Guatemala,focus on pages 3-29, 39-56
Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Chapeter 2, Jacaltec. | | | Week 4 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 3: Language and Cultural Meaning
In Shopen, Bird & Shopen: Maninka
Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Chapter 3, Maninka, focus on pages 59-61, 88-106 | | | Week 5 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 4: Contextual Components
In Shopen, Keenan & Ochs: Becoming a Competent Speaker of Malagasy, focus on pages 113-117, 138-157
?>Fasold: The Ethnography of Communication | | | Week 6 | Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Chapter 4, Malagasy
Assignment 2: Language and Culture: Links (100 points)
| | | Week 7 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 5: Communicative Interactions
Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Chapter 5
Ethnography of Communication Proposal | | | Week 8 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 6: Societal Segmentation and Linguistic Variation
Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Chapter 6
| | | Week 9 | Paper. | | | Week 10 | Readings: In Shopen, Inoue: Japanese: A Story of Language and People, 241-255, 278-299
Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Japanese
Assignment 3: Ethnography of Communication | | | Week 11 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 7: Language and Gender: English
Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Chapter 7
Assignment 4: Discourse Analysis & Language Variation | | | Week 12 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 8: Cross-cultural Studies of Language and Gender
Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Chapter 8, Jacaltec
Research Project Proposal | | | Week 13 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 11: Multilingual Nations
Bonvillain: Chapter 12: Bilingual Communities
| | | Week 14 | Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Chapters 11 and 12
Assignment 5: Language and Gender | | | Week 15 | Readings: Bonvillain: Chapter 9: Language Learning
Bonvillain: Chapter 10: Acquisition of Communicative Competence
Turn in: Chapter Questions due Tuesday: Chapters 9 and 10 | | | Week 16 | Paper. | | | |
| 1 | Bonvillain, Nancy. (2003) Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. | | | 2 | Shopen, Timothy. (1990) Languages and Their Speakers. Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 13/11/2012 | 2 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 08/01/2013 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 16 | 64 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 7 | 21 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 5 | 1 | 5 | | Arasınav | 2.5 | 1 | 2.5 | | Uygulama | 5 | 5 | 25 | | Ödev | 3 | 15 | 45 | | Proje | 3 | 15 | 45 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 2 | 4 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 7 | 3 | 21 | | Diğer 2 | 5 | 3 | 15 | | Total work load | | | 251.5 |
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