SYLLABUS

NOTE: Readings must be done before section the week they appear on the syllabus. Quizzes cover the readings and lectures from the current week. Assignments are due at the beginning of section on the day indicated on the syllabus.

Week 1: Linguistic Variability in Ideology and Practice Monday, April 3 and Wednesday, April 5

ERes: Lippi-Green, "Language Ideology and Language Prejudice" Section: Quiz 0 (ungraded practice quiz) Web assignment 1 due: The Dialectizer

Week 2: American English, British English, and the Invention of the Standard Monday, April 10 and Wednesday, April 12

ERes: Milroy and Milroy, "Two Nations Divided by the Same Language?: The Standard Language Ideology in Britain and the United States" ERes: Jones, " 'Gee, I Love Your Accent': English People and Americans Interact" Section: Quiz 1 Web assignment 2 due: Common Errors in English and The American's Guide to Speaking British

Week 3: Attitudes toward Slang and Youth Language Monday, April 17 and Wednesday, April 19

ERes: Bucholtz, "Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture" ERes: Dailey-O'Cain, "The Sociolinguistic Distribution of and Attitudes toward Focuser Like and Quotative Like" Section: Quiz 2 Web assignment 3 due: Slang City and Urban Dictionary

Week 4: The Evaluation of Regional Dialects Monday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 26

ERes: Lippi-Green, "Hillbillies, Rednecks, and Southern Belles: The Language Rebels" ERes: Fought, "California Students' Perceptions of, You Know, Regions and Dialects?" Section: Quiz 3 Web assignment 4 due: International Dialects of English Archive and What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Week 5: Linguistic Racism and African American Vernacular English Monday, May 1 and Wednesday, May 3

NOTE: Due to the general strike in support of immigrant rights, the Monday lecture will focus on language and immigration; we'll return to African American English Wednesday and next Monday. The quiz will cover this week's readings and lectures as usual. ERes: Green, "African American English" ERes: Ronkin & Karn, "Mock Ebonics: Linguistic Racism in Parodies of Ebonics on the Internet" Section: Quiz 4 Web assignment 5 due: Ebonics Language Lesson and Urban Dictionary definitions of ebonics

Week 6: Xenophobia and English-Only Monday, May 8 and Wednesday, May 10

ERes: Crawford, "Anatomy of the English-Only Movement" ERes: Walters, "English-Only Rules in the Workplace and the Courts' Response" Section: Quiz 5 Web assignment 6 due: US English ads, "Will It Come to This?" and video ads

Week 7: Linguistic Debates in Education Monday, May 15 and Wednesday, May 17

ERes: Fillmore, "Language in Education" ERes: Tamura, "African American Vernacular English and Hawai'i Creole English: A Comparison of Two School Board Controversies" Section: Quiz 6 Web assignment 7 due: "English for the Children" and "A Time and a Place"

Week 8: Linguistic Appropriation and Mock Languages Monday, May 22 and Wednesday, May 24

ERes: Chun, "Ideologies of Legitimate Mockery: Margaret Cho's Revoicings of Mock Asian" ERes: Meek, "And the Injun Goes 'How!': Representations of American Indian English in White Public Space" Section: Quiz 7 Web assignment 8 due: Mock Spanish Preliminary analysis due

Week 9: Language Shift and Language Loss Monday, May 29 and Wednesday, May 31

NO CLASS MONDAY: MEMORIAL DAY ERes: Crawford, "Endangered Native American Languages: What Is to Be Done, and Why?" ERes: Hinton, "Trading Tongues: Loss of Heritage Languages in the United States" Section: Quiz 8 Web assignment 9 due: Native American Radio

Week 10: The Global Hegemony of English Monday, June 5 and Wednesday, June 7

ERes: Martin, "Cultural Images and Different Varieties of English in French Television Commercials" ERes: Park, "'Baby, Darling, Honey!': Constructing a Competence of English in South Korean TV Shows" Section: Quiz 9 Web assignment 10 due: Engrish.com Guest lecture: Jung-Eun (Janie) Lee, Wednesday, June 7 Final exam guidelines distributed in lecture Monday, June 5 Final paper due at the beginning of section Friday, June 9 All extra credit due at the beginning of section Friday, June 9 Final exam: Wednesday, June 14, 8:00-11:00 a.m. in Bren 1414

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