LING230-19S2 (C) Semester Two 2019

Special Topics in Linguistics

This occurrence is not offered in 2019

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2019
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 26 July 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 27 September 2019

Description

Special Topics in Linguistics

Special Topic: Language and Space

Bringing together sociolinguistics and human geography, this course uses data analysis to explore the interaction between language and space. Within individuals, we look at how people inhabit and think about spaces like neighborhoods by using language data: can we build thematic maps of Christchurch using a corpus of newspaper articles? Within societies, we look at how language mapping reveals underlying populations: what can dialects of English tell us about historical settlement patterns and current migrations? At the same time, the interaction between language and space is always changing: can we identify one-off street festivals using topic clusters from social media? To answer these questions, this course combines basic GIS and text analytics techniques, exploring the fusion of linguistics and geography.

For more details see: http://www.jdunn.name/language-space/

The pre-requisites for this course can be waived upon request.

Prerequisites

Contact People

Kevin Watson and Jonathan Dunn

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $761.00

International fee $3,188.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 20 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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  • LING230-19S2 (C) Semester Two 2019 - Not Offered