Undergraduate Course: Language Communities and Variation in Japanese (ASST10141)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will explore an approach to language variation in Japanese. The overarching theme is understanding what varieties of language structure, style and use are found in modern Japanese language. |
| Course description |
Through class activities and hands-on projects students will be exposed to a diverse range of Japanese language practice, and they will critically examine connections among language and social practice. Readings, discussion, and assignments will focus on several important issues such as: the relationship between social identities, like gender or social status, and variation in language use, age-graded and dialectal variation, and the ways in which new literacy practice has been shaped by new media. As a result of this course, students will become more aware of the choices individuals and groups make about how they use language to declare their social identity.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
75 %,
Practical Exam
25 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% coursework :
One assessed presentation (25%)
One individual assignment (70%)
Class participation (5%)
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| Feedback |
Verbal feedback throughout the course, based on class discussions. Also individual written feedback on unassessed written work in W5. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Gain an advanced and sophisticated understanding of colloquial, dialectal, and written variation used in Japanese language communities.
- Explain and illustrate with real-life examples the role that language plays in the construction and shaping of social relationships.
- Search, process and evaluate a wide range of socially-situated spoken and written discourse from both online and offline multimedia materials and printed resources.
- Acquire some techniques for analysis of conversational and written texts.
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Reading List
* Crystal, David. 2006. Language and the Internet. Second edition.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Goffman, Erving. 1974. Frame Analysis : An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Harper Colophon Books ; CN 372. New York: Harper & Row.
* Gottlieb, Nanette. 2005. Language and Society in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Ide, Sachiko, and Naomi Hanaoka McGloin. 1991. Aspects of Japanese Women's Language. Tokyo: Kurosio.
* Maynard, Senko K.. 1997. Japanese Communication : Language and Thought in Context. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
* Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2011. Introducing Sociolinguistics. Second edition. Abingdon: Routledge.
* Meyerhoff, Miriam, and Erik Schleef. 2010. The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader. London ; New York, NY: Routledge.
* Strauss, Susan G.. 2014. Discourse Analysis : Putting Our Worlds into Words. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
* Tsujimura, Natsuko. 1999. The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Malden, Mass; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Presentation skills; understanding real-life Japanese language use; acquire search, process and evaluation skills for linguistic-based enquiry |
| Keywords | language variation,language and social identities,real-life spoken/written data analysis |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Yoko Sturt
Tel: (0131 6)50 4228
Email: y.m.sturt@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Vivien MacNish Porter
Tel: (0131 6)50 3528
Email: vivien.macnish-porter@ed.ac.uk |
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