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LING 2049 - Languages in C21: Cultural Contact & New Words

North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2019

The study of words may be tedious to the school-boy, as breaking of stones is to the wayside labourer, but to the thoughtful eye of the geologist these stones are full of interest - he sees miracles on the high road, and reads chronicles in every ditch. (Max Muller 1871, Lectures on the Science of Language, London: Longman, Green; Vol. I, p. 2) This multifaceted course will introduce students to a range of mechanisms through which new words and meanings are concocted in the modern world. It will explore borrowing ('stealing', or more accurately 'copying'), word-formation, neologization, calquing (loan translation), phono-semantic matching, lexical engineering, semantic shifting of pre-existent words, descriptiveness, purism and etymythology (popular etymology). It will focus on phenomena of lexical expansion and semantic enrichment that are based on contact between cultures and languages. The course will combine sociolinguistic insight with philological expertise, thus being polychronic, i.e. simultaneously diachronic and synchronic. We shall integrate innovative etymological, morphological, ecological and cultural analyses of words in various languages such as English, Mandarin Chinese, Israeli (a.k.a. Modern Hebrew), Japanese, Icelandic, Turkish, Estonian, Yiddish, 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal languages, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Creoles, minority and endangered languages. (No prior knowledge of any language other than English is required.)

  • General Course Information
    Course Details
    Course Code LING 2049
    Course Languages in C21: Cultural Contact & New Words
    Coordinating Unit Linguistics
    Term Semester 1
    Level Undergraduate
    Location/s North Terrace Campus
    Units 3
    Contact Up to 3 hours per week
    Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y
    Prerequisites At least 12 units of Level I undergraduate study
    Assessment 500 word mid-point assignment (20%), contribution (10%), oral presentation (25%), 4000 word post-presentational paper (45%)
    Course Staff

    Course Coordinator: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann

    Professor Ghil‘ad ZUCKERMANN, D.Phil. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Cambridge) (titular)
    Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages, The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide
    ghilad.zuckermann@adelaide.edu.au 


    Student Consultations: (1) Following the lecture (please meet me immediately after the lecture or contact me thereafter at 0423 901 808) or (2) by appointment.

    RESEARCH LIBRARIAN:
    Ms Helen ATTAR (Barr Smith Library)
    08 8313 5345
    helen.attar@adelaide.edu.au (emails read regularly)

    There is a good collection of linguistics books and journals in the Barr Smith Library. Almost all the readings for this course are available online. Professor Zuckermann’s 2003 book is available in the Reserve Collection at the Barr Smith Library.

    Professor Ghil‘ad ZUCKERMANN'S BRIEF BIO:


    Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann (D.Phil. Oxford; Ph.D. Cambridge, titular; M.A. Tel Aviv, summa cum laude) is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide. He is a chief investigator in a large research project assessing language revival and mental health, funded by 最新糖心Vlog’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

    He is the author of the seminal bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language; Am Oved, 2008), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), three chapters of the Israeli Tingo (Keren, 2011), Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property (2015) and the first online Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language (2016). He is the editor of Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (2012), Jewish Language Contact (2014), a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and the co-editor of Endangered Words, Signs of Revival (2014).

    He is the founder of Revivalistics, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation, revitalization and reinvigoration. In 2011 he launched, with the Barngarla Aboriginal communities of Eyre Peninsula, South 最新糖心Vlog, the reclamation of the Barngarla language.

    Professor Zuckermann is elected member of the 最新糖心Vlogn Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL). He is President of the 最新糖心Vlogn Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) and was President of AustraLex in 2013-2015, 最新糖心Vlogn Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in 2007–2011, and Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge in 2000-2004.

    He has been Consultant and Expert Witness in (corpus) lexicography and (forensic) linguistics, in court cases all over the globe, e.g. the Philippines, Singapore, USA and 最新糖心Vlog.

    He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shanghai International Studies 最新糖心Vlog and taught at the 最新糖心Vlog of Cambridge, 最新糖心Vlog of Queensland, National 最新糖心Vlog of Singapore, Middlebury College (Vermont, USA), Shanghai Jiao Tong 最新糖心Vlog, East China Normal 最新糖心Vlog, Shanghai International Studies 最新糖心Vlog, Hebrew 最新糖心Vlog of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion 最新糖心Vlog of the Negev, 最新糖心Vlog of Haifa, and Miami 最新糖心Vlog (Florida, USA).

    He has been Research Fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science; Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 最新糖心Vlog of Texas at Austin (USA); Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew 最新糖心Vlog of Jerusalem; Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe 最新糖心Vlog; Mahidol 最新糖心Vlog (Bangkok); Tel Aviv 最新糖心Vlog; Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies 最新糖心Vlog; and Kokuritsu Kokugo KenkyÅ«jo, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo. He has been Denise Skinner Scholar at St Hugh’s College Oxford, Scatcherd European Scholar at the 最新糖心Vlog of Oxford, and scholar at the United World College of the Adriatic (Italy).

    His MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages, has attracted 15,000 learners from 190 countries (speakers of hundreds of distinct languages): /news/news79582.html
    Course Timetable

    The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .

    LECTURE:
    Tuesdays, 12.10pm, Napier, G03, Lecture Theatre

    TUTORIALS:
    Wednesdays, 11.10am, Hartley, 122, Teaching Room
    Thursdays, 2.10pm, Ligertwood, 316, Teaching Room
  • Learning Outcomes
    Course Learning Outcomes

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  • Learning & Teaching Activities
    Learning & Teaching Modes
    LECTURE OUTLINE

    Week --- Lecture Content --- Associated Readings Assignments

    Week 1
    5 March 2019
    Introduction
    Zuckermann 2003 book

    Week 2
    12 March 2019
    How to conduct research?,
    Library Use

    Week 3
    19 March 2019
    Overview of Lexicology

    Week 4
    26 March 2019
    Overview of Morphology and Phonetics

    Week 5
    2 April 2019
    Proposed Matrix of Sources of Lexical Expansion Haugen 1950 500-Word Mid-Point Assignment,
    Due 25 March 2019 (Census Date: 31 March)

    Week 6
    9 April 2019
    One Word, Two Parents ---- Lexical Expansion and Cultural Hybridity Zuckermann 2004, 2003 (article) Tutorial Oral Presentation

    MID-SEMESTER BREAK

    Week 7
    30 April 2019
    Ex Externo Lexical Expansion (Based Exclusively on a Foreign Source) versus Ex Interno Lexical Expansion (Using Internal Mechanisms, within the Same Language) Pp. 6-13 of Zuckermann 2003 book 

    Week 8
    7 May 2019
    Ex Interno: Secularization, Metaphor, Metonymy (including Synecdoche), Semantic Narrowing, Amelioration and Pejoration Pp. 6-13 of Zuckermann 2003 book 

    Week 9
    14 May 2019
    Ex Interno cum Ex Externo: Calquing
    Pp. 37-49 of Zuckermann 2003 book 

    Week 10
    21 May 2019
    Phono-Semantic Matching in Turkish Lewis 1999

    Week 11
    28 May 2019
    Phono-Semantic Matching in Icelandic, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese etc. Sapir and Zuckermann 2008 

    Week 12
    4 June 2019 Conclusions and Implications Tutorial Oral Presentation
    Post-Presentational Paper, Due 19 June 2019



    Workload

    The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

    The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

    1 x 2-hour lecture per week (x12) 24 hours
    1x 1-hour tutorial per week (x10) 10 hours
    6 hours Reading per week (x12) 72 hours
    2.5 hours Research per week (x12) 30 hours
    2 hours Assignment Preparation per week (x10) 20 hours

    Total 156 hours

    Learning Activities Summary

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  • Assessment

    The 最新糖心Vlog's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

    1. Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
    2. Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
    3. Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
    4. Assessment must maintain academic standards.

    Assessment Summary


    TASK WEIGHTING LEARNING OBJECTIVES DUE DATE

    500-word Mid-Point Assignment 20% 12367
    Tutorial Oral Presentation 25% 12467
    4000-word post-presentational paper 45% 124567
    Attendance & Contribution (Positive Participation) 10% 123467

    Assessment Related Requirements
    REQUIREMENTS

    Attendance of tutorials is compulsory. Students will be expected to complete additional exercises and small-scale investigations between tutorials. Application to these tasks will contribute to the 10% awarded to attendance and contribution (positive participation).
    Assessment Detail
    MID-POINT ASSIGNMENT (20%)
    WORD COUNT: 500 WORDS
    Due Date: 25 March 2019
    Students should submit a 500-word essay (with examples) on
    1. One of the following topics:
    Borrowing
    Word-formation
    Neologization
    Grammatical gender
    Cultural hybridity
    Calquing (loan translation)
    Phono-semantic matching
    Multiple causation
    Lexical engineering
    Semantic shifting of pre-existent words
    Descriptiveness
    Purism
    Etymythology (popular etymology)
    Polychronic linguistic analysis
    Creole
    Minority language
    Endangered language
    Neologization ex nihilo
    Secularization
    Metaphor
    Metonymy
    Synecdoche
    Semantic Narrowing
    Amelioration
    Pejoration
    Blending
    Back-formation
    Reanalysis
    Loanword
    Morphemic adaptation
    Foreign word
    Phonetic adaptation
    Guest word
    Ad hoc neologization
    Ellipsis
    Clipping
    Acronym
    Initialism
    Congruence Principle
    Camouflaged borrowing
    Multisourced neologization
    OR
    2. Any topic or article or book related to contact linguistics / lexical enrichment / lexicology / lexicography. The topic can be selected from the ones covered in class. The article/book can be selected from the List of Learning Resources. The professor will be happy to provide you with assistance in selecting the topic. Please feel free to raise any question about the assignment in the tutorials.

    TUTORIAL ORAL PRESENTATION (25%)
    Presentation Date: various, after the semester break
    Students are required to give an oral presentation (with handouts), (1) either making an in-depth polychronic analysis of five lexical items in any language (The words can have a common motif, e.g. all being phono-semantic matches or calques), (2) or conducting a critical review of a dictionary or a book/article on contact linguistics / lexical enrichment / lexicology / lexicography (The article/book can be selected from the List of Learning Resources). The professor will be happy to provide you with assistance in selecting the topic. Please feel free to raise any question about the presentation in the tutorials.
    Please note: Students are expected to contribute feedback on other students’ presentations.

    POST-PRESENTATIONAL PAPER (45%)
    Word Count; 4,000 words
    Due Date: 19 June 2019
    Students should submit a 4000-word post-presentation paper – further analysing the 5 lexical items or the topic chosen, incorporating the feedback received on the presentation.

    4.12 SUBMISSION
    1. All assignments are to be submitted through Canvass.
    2. All assignments must be in grammatical English.
    3. Always keep a copy of your work. (Just occasionally things do go astray!)
    4. Assignments submitted late require a doctor’s certificate, counsellor’s certificate or similar proof/documentation.
    5. Extensions (normally up to one week) may be negotiated through the tutor, but this MUST be organised prior to the due date.
    Submission

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    Course Grading

    Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

    M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
    Grade Mark Description
    FNS   Fail No Submission
    F 1-49 Fail
    P 50-64 Pass
    C 65-74 Credit
    D 75-84 Distinction
    HD 85-100 High Distinction
    CN   Continuing
    NFE   No Formal Examination
    RP   Result Pending

    Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

    Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

    Final results for this course will be made available through .

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