Example Lesson
LIN 100—Marla Perkins, Ph.D.
Fall 2012
While I’m at the Conference
1. Watch one of the following movies and write a short paragraph or list in which you note three things that you learned about language. E-mail me your paragraph/list on or before October 22 (marla.perkins@oswego.edu).
• The King’s Speech (drama: about working through a speech impediment—phonetics/speech pathology/sociolinguistics)
• The Gods Must Be Crazy (comedy: includes lots of a natively spoken click language—phonetics/typology)
• Children of a Lesser God (drama: about deaf culture and American Sign Language—typology/sociolinguistics)
• Rango (comedy: about creating identity through speech patterns—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis/phonetics)
• Snowcake (comedy/drama: about what can go hilariously/profoundly wrong when pragmatic implicatures are not used/understood—pragmatics/morphology)
• Kenneth Branaugh’s Much Ado About Nothing (comedy: a sample of Shakespearean English—pay attention to the ways in which language has changed in the past 400 years—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics /phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics)
• Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet (tragedy: as above—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics/phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics)
• Driving Miss Daisy (comedy/drama: class differences in language use and pragmatic implicature—sociolinguistics/pragmatics)
• Bridge on the River Kwai (drama: learning to communicate across a language/culture/power barrier—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis)
• The Great Debaters (drama: using language to inform/persuade/manipulate—semantics/pragmatics/discourse analysis/rhetoric)
• My Fair Lady (musical: about standard accents and class structure—sociolinguistics/phonetics)
2. Attend class the day the TA is teaching (TA—take attendance!).
3. Working in your small groups (we’ll figure out groups in class), pick one of the following chapters to summarize and respond to; present your
Fall 2012
While I’m at the Conference
1. Watch one of the following movies and write a short paragraph or list in which you note three things that you learned about language. E-mail me your paragraph/list on or before October 22 (marla.perkins@oswego.edu).
• The King’s Speech (drama: about working through a speech impediment—phonetics/speech pathology/sociolinguistics)
• The Gods Must Be Crazy (comedy: includes lots of a natively spoken click language—phonetics/typology)
• Children of a Lesser God (drama: about deaf culture and American Sign Language—typology/sociolinguistics)
• Rango (comedy: about creating identity through speech patterns—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis/phonetics)
• Snowcake (comedy/drama: about what can go hilariously/profoundly wrong when pragmatic implicatures are not used/understood—pragmatics/morphology)
• Kenneth Branaugh’s Much Ado About Nothing (comedy: a sample of Shakespearean English—pay attention to the ways in which language has changed in the past 400 years—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics /phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics)
• Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet (tragedy: as above—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics/phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics)
• Driving Miss Daisy (comedy/drama: class differences in language use and pragmatic implicature—sociolinguistics/pragmatics)
• Bridge on the River Kwai (drama: learning to communicate across a language/culture/power barrier—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis)
• The Great Debaters (drama: using language to inform/persuade/manipulate—semantics/pragmatics/discourse analysis/rhetoric)
• My Fair Lady (musical: about standard accents and class structure—sociolinguistics/phonetics)
2. Attend class the day the TA is teaching (TA—take attendance!).
3. Working in your small groups (we’ll figure out groups in class), pick one of the following chapters to summarize and respond to; present your