Jan 9 1 Language in the brain and
across the lifespan ch 1 *Harwood,* Minnie Evans, *The Mind,*The Brain, *OvidTable
[* means instructor does it]
16 Martin
Luther King Holiday
23 2
Language and aging: ageism and attitudes ch 2 and *Ryan XCult Ca-Asia
30 3
Language and aging: relational considerations ch 3
Politeness. Centra lab
Feb 6 4 Language and aging:
projections and portrayals ch 4-5 *Grand Rounds Pap 1
13 5
Language and aging: work, play and movement ch 6-7,
10 *Clark LangCogFig02 Begin thinking whether you will
collect/transcribe/analyze 1 conversation or
edit 2 (see what’s
due March 27)
20 6
Language and aging: aging in the family ch 8-9 Filmfest:
smallgrp revw Letter 1
Feb 27 7
BEGIN in your YAHOO groups
DUE means by or before midnight the
Saturday before ‘class meeting’; Late penalties apply after that.
DUE F25 Write (online)2 p Individual self-intro
to Chinese students including reflection on The Pragmatics of
Letter-Writing and (Hondo01) Cross Cultural Varieties of Politeness
March 13 8 RESPOND on YAHOO to
their letters and give summary described below.
DUE M11 Small Group 2-p summary of Language and aging: barriers and health issues ch 11, 12
DUE: Individual Midterm
(send directly to BD) described first page of syllabus; ½ p per term suggested
limit
March 20 CENTRA 9
Aging in
DUE: M18 Send 2-p group letter summarizing what you understand & the questions your Small Group has for your Chinese
partners. SET UP how your group will do
your metaphor analyses:
March 27 centra 10 Language and aging: narrative and
reminiscence ALL Coelho Story, Quilting, MoreReminisROC,
G adds ReminisTaiwan.
Read answers from ROC.
DUE: M25 Individual conversation: TWMAPS reminiscence 2 p analysis
and transcript(s)
April 3 CENTRA
11 Language and aging: creativity and metaphor Lakoff
pp4-first half of 11 carefully, either Metaphor Lessons OR Nosal
onNarrative, G add Wray, review Dilin
Liu.
DUE: A1 Individual Analysis 2p of story
in selected conversational narrative in reply to ROC
April 10 centra 12
Language, culture, aging: ART PecchioniOta&Sparks Cult Issues, Interactional
Approaches in G&M,
DUE: A8 Small Group metaphor analyses and read ROC answers
April 17 CENTRA 13 Language disorders ALL Kempler Prag Deficits ,Coelho, Prag
inSLP03, CogImpairSoTaiwan;
DUE: A15 Small Group Review of Materials [they will be online for
you]
April 24 centra 14 Language, discourse, dementia: ART, WangReminis-Taiwan, Grad research review ArkinMahendra01,
MaclaganDavisLunsford06
DUE:
TBA We will schedule this TBA to
accommodate your end-of-semester crunch
May 1 no centra,
just email 15 Interventions : Mahendra,
SocWk&Aging, Dijkstra, Cosentino-Ryan
May 8 exam DUE before 6 May (send me email and
I’ll post on CENTRA
–for May 8 Individual powerpoints 10
slides UG, 15 G discussion of
possible intervention(s) from your chosen perspective, keyed to some aspect of
language, discourse, and dementia or other disorder
On reserve: 3 CDs from the Proverb Project (see main
webpage) . Group 1, Group 2, Group 3. Group 4 will use Group 2 CD. Group
5 will use Group 1 CD and Group 6 will use Group 3 CD.
See for background,
links at http://www.english.uncc.edu/bdavis/proverb.htm
Your Transcription Assignment will
comprise the following:
a. A portfolio comprising all the
transcriptions people in your group have done of your selected passage. Each of
these transcriptions should include an introductory section that provides the
date it was done, the elements (actual words, stress on a syllable, pauses,
loudness, etc) you were attempting to capture in the transcription, and any
information I will need to understand your transcription. I suggest you save
the file for emailing as pdf or ppt
to show your markup.
b. A brief reflection (1200-1500 wds) by each member of the group in which he/she explores
what he/she has learned
in this process. That may include insights about this passage, about the art of
transcribing, and about language in general.