10.1 Language Concepts: Forms of Language Variation
Agenda:
a. Listen to Breeze/PowerPoint introduction
b. Read L&L Chapter 6 Reading L&L
c. Read Traugott selection from Linguistics for Students of Literature on Electronic reserves Reading Traugott
d. Post reflections on your own experience with language variation, and connections with the introduction and reading, to the Language Concepts discussion. Respond to two other posts.
10.2 Applying Language Variation Concepts to Literature Agenda a. Read Doyle selections with variant forms. b. Post observations to Doyle discussion. c. Read Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" Reading Bambara's d. Using worksheet 10.2, analyze the language variation of Bambara's story--the forms and uses of AAVE/Ebonics that appear and how they reflect other concerns of the characters. Worksheet 10.2 e. Post your understandings to the literature blog on Bambara and respond to two other posts.
10.3 Your Research Agenda Weeks 8 and 9--(Optional) Post any further clarifications re. grammar that you followed out as you worked on analyzing narrative syntax or discourse, or other ideas about your ongoing work, areas for...more |