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Linguistics at the University of Adelaide

Linguistics at the University of Adelaide. Dr Rob Amery University of Adelaide Napier Rm 910. Tel: 83133924 rob.amery@adelaide.edu.au. What is a Linguist?. Someone who speaks several languages? NO! (that’s a bilingual or polyglot)

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Linguistics at the University of Adelaide

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  1. Linguistics at the University of Adelaide Dr Rob Amery University of Adelaide Napier Rm 910. Tel: 83133924 rob.amery@adelaide.edu.au

  2. What is a Linguist? • Someone who speaks several languages? • NO! (that’s a bilingual or polyglot) • Many linguists do speak several languages (happens to be true of most of the staff in Linguistics at Adelaide Uni) • But some linguists are monolingual and may only work on their own language

  3. What is Linguistics? • The science of language – finding out what makes languages tick • Consider this sentence: • The horse raced past the barn fell. • Is it OK? Is it a good sentence? • What fell?

  4. The horse raced past the barn fell. • Often people try to make sense of it by breaking it into two sentences: The horse raced past. The barn fell. • But no need to do this. It is fine as it is. • Computers have no difficulty in processing this sentence. • This kind of sentence is called a Garden Path sentence. • Once we think of this sentence in a transitive sense (ie someone raced the horse past the barn) then it’s easy. No problem. (cfThe horse ridden past the barn fell) • This shows us an important difference between brains and machines

  5. What do linguists do? • Document, describe and analyse languages • Investigate how languages are acquired and learnt • Look at what goes on in the mind when we use language (Psycholinguistics) • Look at what goes on in the brain when we use language (Neurolinguistics) • Give evidence in a court of law (Forensic Linguistics)

  6. What do Linguists do? ctd • Investigate the relationship between language and culture (Anthropological Linguistics) • Language in Society (Sociolinguistics) • Investigate the relationships between languages (Comparative Linguistics) and their development over time (Historical Linguistics) • Investigate language in relation to its context or home (Ecological Linguistics)

  7. LING 1101 ‘Foundations of Linguistics’ • Semester 1 (first year course) • Looks at the nature of language itself • Linguistic subsystems (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, semantics) • Language acquisition • Neurolinguistics • The origins of writing • Language change, language typology and language universals

  8. LING 1102: Language & the Ethnography of Communication What language is cannot be separated from how and why it is used. This course is interested in variation: • Language variation in accent • Language variation in social class • Language variation in gender • Language variation as part of ethnicity • Language variation in different aged groups

  9. 2014 Winter Semester: LING 2014 ‘Australian Indigenous Languages’ 24th June till 10th July Semester 1 • LING 1101 Foundations of Linguistics • Language & Meaning Semester 2 • LING 1102 Language & the Ethnography of Communication • Morphology & Syntax • Introduction to Discourse Analysis

  10. 2015 Summer Semester: LING 2039 ‘Reclaiming Languages: a Kaurna case study’ Semester 1 • LING 1101 Foundations of Linguistics • Language and Meaning Semester 2 • LING 1102 Language & the Ethnography of Communication • Phonology • Language in the 21st Century

  11. 2nd and 3rd year Linguistics Courses • Phonology • Morphology & Syntax • Australian Indigenous Languages • Reclaiming Languages: a Kaurna case study • Revival Linguistics • Languages in the 21st Century: Cultural Contact and New Words • Language in a Global Society • Cross-Cultural Communication • Introduction to Discourse Analysis • Language & Meaning • Language Learning • Language & Communication Planning • Language & Environment • Language, Cognition & Reality

  12. MA Applied Linguistics • Linguistics Research Methods • Field Linguistics • Language Learning & Linguistics • Discourse Analysis • Meaning as Choice • Language Planning

  13. Research Strengths • Endangered Languages • Aboriginal Languages (esp Kaurna, Wirangu, Ngarrindjeri, Yankunytjatjara) • Revival Linguistics • Mission Linguistics • Ecological Linguistics • Language Planning • Educational Linguistics • Systemic Functional Linguistics • Research into New Arrivals Program (Sudanese) • Discourse analysis in health (clinical discourse)

  14. Professor of Linguistics of Endangered Languages • Prof Ghil’ad Zuckermann • Commenced in Feb. 2011 • Wants to make Adelaide Uni the world centre of Revival Linguistics • Expertise in Israeli (Hebrew language revival) • Kaurna Linguistics • Ngarrindjeri • Wirangu • Mobile Language Team

  15. Thank You! • Any Qestions?

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