7.1 Exploring Language Concepts: Syntax and Information Structure

Agenda:

a. Listen to PowerPoint/Breeze introduction.

b. Read Chapter 5, Language and Literacy, to p. 99, keeping a list of terms you want to clarify.    Reading L&L Chpt.5

c. Post to Language Concepts Discussion 7.1 Syntax and Info Structure and respond to two other posts.

7.2 Applying Language Concepts to Literature: Doyle

Agenda:

a. Read Doyle selections.    Reading Doyle_Woman

b. Listen to sound files.

c. Use worksheet to analyze the syntax and information structure of any Doyle passage (following the model of my analysis of "Crushes" in the Breeze intro for this week).   Worksheet 7.2

d. Post understandings to Doyle discussion thread.

e. Respond to two other posts.

                                                     7.3--Research into Points of Grammar

1.  Identify a couple of points of grammar/terminology that you would like to clarify for yourself.

2. Use the worksheet to guide your inquiry into these points.  Worksheet 7.3

3. Using the resource sites linked here or any others, see what you've discovered about the concepts and terms you've chosen.      hypergrammar     University College London     The Tongue Untied

4. Post the understandings you've gained from your inquiry to the language concept discussion (not your research journal) where they're more easily organized/accessed by topic threads. Respond to two other posts.