Language and Identity: Researching and Writing Who We Are

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Cursusdoel

After successfully completing this course, students will be able to articulate and apply the theories of language and identity covered in class.

Vakinhoudelijk

This course examines how we use language to perform our own identities, to recognize others’ identity performances, and to represent idenitity behaviours in speech and writing. Students will read contemporary research and theory in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology to gain the theoretical tools and research methods for describing and analyzing language behaviors linked to identity. Topics to be covered include language ideology, critical race theory, ethnography, and discourse analysis with the goal of enabling self-reflection about students’ own language attitudes and identity practices. Students will produce preliminary ethnographically-informed research and writing by collecting and examining original data in this domain. They will formulate a relevant research question and use one or more of the following methods of data collection and analysis to answer their question: participant observation, sociolinguistic interview, transcription, discourse analysis, survey, and ethnographic writing. Students will report on these analyses in spoken and written English appropriate for the fields of study introduced here. Lectures and tutorials will be interactive requiring participation in games and embodied performance as practice-based research for understanding key course concepts.

Aanvullende informatie

Priority rules apply to this course. Make sure you register for this course before June 12th 2023 12:00h (noon) to be considered for enrollment. The following students are guaranteed a place:
  • BA English Language and Culture
  • BA TCS or LAS
  • Minor Interculturele communicatie
  • Minor Geesteswetenschappen in de beroepspraktijk (in Dutch)
  • Exchange students
Other students will be placed by means of random selection.

This is the second course in the Social Life of English specialisation.

LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major, need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See for more information: https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/

Early Exit option for international exchange students (5 ECTS)
Exchange students who are required to return to their home university before January, are allowed to choose an Early Exit option for this course. The Early Exit option means that students can finish the course before Christmas break, receiving 5 ECTS for the course. Students must make arrangements with the course coordinator at the start of the course.

Werkvormen

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Toelichting

Lectures and tutorials will be interactive requiring participation in games and embodied performances as practice-based research for understanding key course concepts.

Bijdrage

Students will be provided with the opportunity to conduct their research in a group and to write and present about it in a group.

Voorbereiding

Students will be required to study the relevant material before class, participate in class activities and discussions, prepare written expercises, conduct an ethnographic research project and to present it orally and in written form. There will also be an oral exam.

Toetsing

Mondeling tentamen

Verplicht | Weging 15% | ECTS 1,13

Opdracht

Verplicht | Weging 60% | ECTS 4,5

Referaat

Verplicht | Weging 25% | ECTS 1,88

Knowledge of and an ability to reflect on the social, cultural and pedagogical issues raised in the course and to conduct independent research into these issues.

To be announced.

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet minimaal 45 punten van het bachelor programma hebben behaald

Voorkennis

Excellent command of academic English in speaking and writing. Basic knowledge of English phonetics and concepts from general linguistics.

Voorkennis kan worden opgedaan met

The sound lab, Prescribing and Describing and Foundations of English Linguistics.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

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Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

Materiaal Omschrijving
WNB To be announced.

Aanbevolen materiaal

Materiaal Omschrijving
WNB On the reserve shelf.

Coördinator

dr. D.L. Cole D.L.Cole@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. D.L. Cole D.L.Cole@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Deze cursus is open voor bijvakkers. Controleer wel of er aanvullende ingangseisen gelden.

Inschrijving
Van dinsdag 30 mei 2023 tot en met vrijdag 23 juni 2023

Na-inschrijving
Van maandag 23 oktober 2023 tot en met dinsdag 24 oktober 2023

Inschrijving niet geopend
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