Aperçu des sections

  • Course: Linguistics

                                                                  Course: Linguistics

                                                                      Semester TWO

                                                           Academic year: 2024/2025

                                                      ok

                                                                                               Dr. Haroun Melgani

                                      Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Foreign Languages, Oum El Bouaghi University, Algeria

                                                                                   Email: melgani.haroun@univ-oeb.dz 

                                      CV:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JLkKfgXPhfi32O_SAoq0gpcArMz4WNs9/view?usp=sharing 

                                                                                                       Code UEF3.2

     INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES: Students are expected to:

    1.    Understand the basic concepts in Ethnography of communication-Ethnographic of  communication, patterns of communication, speech events, ...et
    2. Understand the SPEAKING GRID, its functions and criticism
    3.  Understand the essential notions associated with language varieties, such as code choice, code switching and style shifting 

    Description of the Course: 

    This course overviews the interplay between language use and its cultural milieu, foregrounding how speakers and communities of speakers opt for specifiable ways of speaking in different cultural contexts. The logic of this course builds from basic concepts (e., Speech Act) and axioms, history of Ethnography of communication, to case studies about the socio-cultural embedding of patterns of communication. Each lesson contains Group and individual home assignments, group chats and YouTube videos about many language related issues. This course, it must be noted, contains many ‘bona fide’ examples from various world language cultures and multilingual societies.

                                                                                                       Target Group(s):   

                                                                                            ok

                                                                              Third year Students, LMD         

                                                                                                         Speciality: English 

      Course Prerequisites:

    Subjects/basic knowledge students must have acquired prior taking this course: 

    Formal Linguistics; Modern Linguistics; Chomsky's approach to Linguistics (UG, Linguistic Competence); Language Communication; Social Identity, Identity Construction.

    Course Instructional Materials: PDF files, WORD texts, links, graphs, charts & Videos.
    Pretest: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cM5rjT3iXnjxEhk_CKy_vRIqxhQrgeSv/edit?rtpof=true

                                                                                          Outline:
    Lesson one / Week ONE: Introduction to Ethnography of Communication : Theoretical Foundations
    Lesson one / Week TWO: Introduction to Ethnography of Communication :  A Historical Perspective
    Lesson two / Week  THREE: Basic Terms, Concepts, and Issues (Part 1)
    Lesson two / Week FROUR: Basic Terms, Concepts, and Issues (Part 2)
    Lesson three / Week FIVE: SPEAKING GRID: Theoretical and Methodological Grounding
    Lesson three / Week SIX: Case Studies 
    Lesson four / Week SEVEN: Varieties of Language/ Code Choice and Lexical Borrowing
    Lesson four / Week EIGHT: Varieties of Language / Diglossia and Code Switching
    Week NINE:  TD TEST

    Session Duration: 90 minutes
    Evaluation:
    The teacher evaluates each student’s knowledge and understanding of the course at the end of the instructional unit. Students are expected to answer some questions about concepts and issues related to language and society. It should be noted that 50 % of the Grading system adopted in this course pertains to the TD tests, whereas the other 50 % pertains to the final exams.

  • Lesson 1: Introduction to Ethnography of Communication
    LEARNING OBJECTIVES
    After studying this course, students will be able to: 
                                                       ok
  • Lesson 2: Basic Terms, Concepts, and Issues
    LEARNING OBJECTIVES
    After studying this course, students will be able to: 
    • Demyestify the notion of Ethnography of communication and other related notions;
    • Undestand the basic goals of SPEAKING grid, Identify its main components, and learn more about its application in ethnographically orientated research studies.

  • Lesson Three: Varieties of Language
    LEARNING OBJECTIVES
    After studying this course, students will be able to: 
    Understand the interrelationship between language variation, code choice and social milieu;
    Demystify the notion of diglossia and its relationship with Dinomia and bilingualim/multilingualim;
    Identify the differences between Code switching, lexical borrowing and style shifting;
    Understand the different ways in which sociocultural forces co-vary with basic contact-induced sociolinguistic phenomena (e.g., code switching, linguistic markers) 

  • TD TESTS / EXAMS
    Scoring:
     TD tests: 50 % (20 points)
           Attendance: 5 points
           Participation: 2 points
           TD Test: 13 points
     Final Exam: 50 % (20 points)