LINGGWISTIKS 1

IKAW AT WIKA MO
WFU WF 1000-1130 PH 400A
1st Semester AY 2015-2016

Farah C. Cunanan
fccunanan@up.edu.ph; fccunanan@gmail.com
63-2-9269887; 63-2-981-8500 loc. 2128
FC 2119; FC 2110

Consultation Hours
Tues - Fri 0100-0400p

COURSE OBJECTIVES
Get an overview of language studies and its various aspects and subfields
Get insights on the factors that affect and influence languages and language use, and vice versa
Look at some language problems in the Philippines and propose possible solutions for them
Develop a critical eye/ear for language
Relate language studies to ones field and everyday life

COURSE CONTENT
Aug 5

R: reading material

H: handout

Overview of language studies; Language vs communication

R: The uniqueness of human language (Trask)

The origin of language; History of language studies

R: Traditional approaches to language study (Crystal)

12

Discussion / Review; Group presentation 1 assignment

14

Components of grammar 1: Phonetics and phonology

19, 21

HOLIDAY: Preparation for Group presentation 1 (sociolinguistics)

26

Components of grammar 2: Morphology and syntax

28

Components of grammar 3: Semantics, pragmatics, and prosody

Sep 2

Language acquisition and disability

H: The IPA chart 2005

H: Speech and language - Developmental milestones

R: The new science of dyslexia (Gorman)
4

Exam 1

Writing systems

11

Historical linguistics and language change

R: Writing right (Diamond)

R: Introduction to historical linguistics (Crowley)

R: Researchers trace the Pacific migration route using bacteria and language
16

Endangered languages, language extinction, death, and birth

R: Speaking with a single tongue (Diamond)

R: Vanishing voices (Rymer)

R: A long fight begins to save Philippine languages (Morella)

18, 23, 25 Group presentation 1: Language varieties: Dialects, sociolects, idiolects

Submission of Language Journal (Sep 18)
30

Language and culture

R: Hanunoo color categories (Conklin)
R: Time concept among the Mangyans (Postma)
Group presentation 2 assignment

Oct 2

Taboos
R: Why we curse (Pinker)
Preparation for Group presentation 2 (ethnolinguistics)

7, 9, 14

Group presentation 2: Language and culture

16

Language and cognition: Neurolinguistics, lying

22

Language and personality

R: The secret life of pronouns (Pennebaker)

24, 29

Nonverbal communication: Sign language and body language

R: The physiology of facial expressions (Duenwald)

31

Exam 2

Nov 4

Translation
Group presentation 3 assignment

Second language learning

R: Why learn a second language? (Ansary)
R: Why bilinguals are smarter (Bhattacharjee)
R: Does speaking in a 2L make you think more, or feel less? (Sedivy)
R: Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational (Keim)

11

Language planning
R: What is language planning? (Robinson)
R: Putting tongues in check (Hornblower)

13

Language and power: Language attitudes, stereotyping, linguistic hegemony

R: Linguistics hegemony (Malicsi)

18

Forensic linguistics
Language and other fields; Math and logic, arts
R: How I got into linguistics and what I got out of it (Labov)

20

Exam 3
Submission of Language Journal

25

Preparation for Group presentation 3

27

Group presentation 3

COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Exams

70% (Exam 1, 2, 3)

Others 30% (class activities, group activities, language journal, etc.)

CLASS RULES
Class starts 10 minutes past 1000 and ends 10 minutes before 1130. Coming in after the class starts
will be marked late. Three late marks are equivalent to an absence.
Only 6 absences are allowed by the University. A student who incur more than 6 absences will
be given a failing grade unless s/he officially drops the course.
Missed class activities and group activities due to tardiness or absence will be equivalent to zero.
Make-up exams for missed ones will be given only upon presentation of a medical certificate
from the University Health Service or a formal excuse letter stating an acceptable reason in
detail.
Devote your 1000-1130 of Wednesdays and Fridays to Lingg 1 for the First Semester 2015-2016. Do
not work on assignments for other classes or activities for your student organization, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES

HOLIDAYS / EVENTS

Oct 1 (Th): mid-semester

Aug 19 (W): Quezon City Day

Oct 15 (Th): ACLE

Aug 21 (F): Ninoy Aquino Day

Oct 30 (F): deadline for dropping

Nov 1 (Su): All Saints Day

Nov 13 (F): deadline for LOA filing

Nov 30 (M): Bonifacio Day

Nov 28 (Sa): last day of classes

Dec 19 (Sa) to Jan 3 (Su): Christmas Break

Dec 14 (M): Lantern Parade

Dec 18 (F): deadline for grades submission