LING310-22S2 (C) Semester Two 2022

Linguistic Research and New Zealand English

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 July 2022
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 31 July 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 2 October 2022

Description

Research on New Zealand English has taught us a lot about how language varies and changes. In this course, you will carry out your own research project on New Zealand English, using our internationally renowned language databases, or by collecting your own data using a questionnaire or language experiment. You will do real research, in a collaborative research lab environment. The best projects are submitted to academic journals for possible publication.

How does New Zealand English vary across different speakers, how has it changed over time, and what can this tell us about how language works?

This is a research course. It has a practical focus which will provide hands-on experience in the analysis of New Zealand English. Students are trained how to think like a researcher, how to formulate hypotheses, and how to test them. You will conduct a piece of original research on language variation and/or change in New Zealand.  This may use existing corpora, or involve your own data-collection.  The transferable skills you learn on this course are excellent training for a wide range of careers, both in Linguistics and in other fields.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will:
1. be able to demonstrate their understanding of how New Zealand English varies and changes
over time
2. be able to display complex data in tabular and graphical form,
3. be able to critically evaluate rival hypotheses regarding language variation and change,
4. be able to effectively communicate complex research results

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 200 level from LING.

Restrictions

Course Coordinator

Jennifer Hay

Textbooks / Resources

There is no required textbook for this course. Essential readings will be assigned each week and
posted on Learn but students working at this level are expected to supplement this with their own
reading.

Course links

Library portal
The course outline is available on LEARN (only for students enrolled in this course).
LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,597.00

International fee $7,200.00

* 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.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All LING310 Occurrences

  • LING310-22S2 (C) Semester Two 2022
  • LING310-22S2 (D) Semester Two 2022 (Distance)
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