I taught a course in linguistics and literature for several years, and that experience resulted in a book: Linguistics and English Literature: An introduction, by H.D. Adamson, Cambridge University Press, 2019. All of the chapters show how linguistic tools can be used to analyze literature (this enterprise is usually called "stylistics"). I would recommend that you talk about metaphor because your literature students already know what literary metaphors are and may be delighted to learn about conceptual metaphors, which show up in just about everything we say and write. Another good topic would be language varieties, and how authors like Twain, Dickens and Dorothy Parker use orthography, including "eye dialect," to represent the speech of their characters, thereby establishing the characters' identities. Good luck with the talk.
Doug Adamson
Professor Emeritus
English Department
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition
and Teaching (SLAT)
University of Arizona
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Subject: Re: Linguistics for English Majors
I've previously run induction activities for new undergrads, who presumably have a
similar level of knowledge. For this I had a few activities to stir their interest.
One exercise was a quiz based on regional dialect recordings from the BBC Voices
project (this was when I worked in the UK but there are similar resources in other
countries). I played four selected recordings from disparate parts of the country,
and asked the students to guess where each person was from, and to be as specific as
possible. This led on to a *brief* - and I hope engaging/motivating - discussion of
how we can define sounds using phonetic terminology, along with a bit of playing
around with making different sounds all together by e.g. moving the tongue around in
the vowel space.
I then moved on to some perceptual dialectology, basically Dennis Preston's well
known 'draw a map' task: give them a blank map of the country and ask them to mark
off all the dialect areas they know about. They did it individually at first, then
compared in groups, and mentioned where they were each from. The pretty reliable
outcome of this task is that the closer to where a person has lived, the more
distinctions they know, then the distinctions get broader/bigger/vaguer the further
from where they live. Depending on the age group it can be worth asking them to keep
it respectful!
Best of luck!
Dave
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On 27/09/2019 01:43, Paulina Bounds wrote:
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> I was asked by English Club at my dept to present about what linguistics is,
> basically to see if they could be interested. I'm at Englosh Dept that only offers a
> few upper level ling classes (I teach them all). There is no ling major or minor,
> English majors usually come to my classes with absolutely no prior knowledge of ling.
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> I get about 30-40 minutes for this presentation , and would like to make it engaging
> to them and hopefully spark interest in taking classes. So, i'm looking for what
> worked for you, I'm open to all suggestions.
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