MODL1010-02.The Language Phenomenon.Sp14.Martinson,Kirk

Faculty Name

Kirk Martinson

Document Type

Syllabi

School

CLA

Department

MODL

Course Subject

MODL

Course Number

1010

Course Section

02

Course Title

The Language Phenomenon

Academic Term and Year

Spring 2014

Credits

4.00

Hamline Plan Letter

H

Area of Study

FREN, GERM, LING, MODL, SPAN

Course Description

Goals: To understand language, the uniquely human enterprise, and particularly the English language. To describe language - its sound patterns, its forms, its meanings, its structural patterns. To determine how languages are born, evolve, and die. To discern how both first and second languages are acquired. Content: English phonetics, phonology, morphology, writing, syntax, semantics. Language both in its social context - dialects, slang, taboos, language acquisition-and in its historical context-philology and etymology. Class activities may include reading from Lewis Carroll, collecting of speech samples from sound tracks, media, and the street, creating a new language and analyzing word games. Taught: Annually.

Recommended Citation

Martinson, Kirk, "MODL1010-02.The Language Phenomenon.Sp14.Martinson,Kirk" (2014). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 2922.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/2922