Pedro Domínguez Caballero de
Rodas
Edificio departamental de Filología, B1-20
tel. (34) 922 31 65 02-6612
pdcrodas@ull.es
Horario de tutorías.
Dpto. de Filología
Inglesa y Alemana.
Facultad de
Humanidades (Filología).
Universidad de La Laguna
(España).
Asignatura optativa de 6 créditos en cuarto del Grado en Estudios Ingleses.
Assignment
1.
Peter Streven's map of English (1980).
Braj Kachru's three circle model of World Englishes
(1985).
Tom McArthur's circle of World English (1987).
Marko Modiano's centripetal circles of international English
(1999).
Alastair Pennycook: English and the Discourses of Colonialism (1998) (more info on this book).
Assignment
2.
Salikoko S. Mufwene: Colonisation, Globalisation, and the Future
of Languages in the Twenty-First Century (2002).
Henry G. Widdowson: The Ownership of English (1993) (download the whole article).
Assignment
3.
Edgar W. Schneider's dynamic
model of the evolution of postcolonial Englishes (2007).
Randolph Quirk:
Language Varieties and Standard Language (1989).
Randolph
Quirk in an interview for NHK ►
13:30 (1989 video).
Braj B. Kachru: Liberation Linguistics and the Quirk Concern (1991).
Assignment
4.
John C.
Wells's lexical sets (1982).
English vowels (chart).
IPA
vowel chart with audio.
Bernd Kortmann
and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi: Global Synopsis: Morphological and
Syntactic Variation in English (2004).
David Crystal:
Speaking of Writing and Writing of Speaking (1995).
Naomi
S. Baron: Approaches to the relationship between speech and
writing (2000).
Geoffrey
Leech, Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad: Typical speech and
writing (1982).
Fiona Lyddy et al.: An Analysis of Language in University
Students' Text Messages (2014).
Assignment
5.
John C. Wells: Accents of
English (with recorded specimens, 1982).
IDEA: International
Dialects of English Archive (1997).
Dialects of England (map).
Counties
of England (map).
Peter
Trudgill: The Historical Sociolinguistics of Elite Accent Change:
On Why RP Is Not Disappearing (2008).
The English
Language: Received Pronunciation ►
24:02 (2012 video).
Prince
William, Prince Harry, and Joss Stone before concert for
Diana ► 5:46 (2015
video).
Estuary English ► 2:35 (2012
video).
Multicultural
London English (MLE) or Jafaican ►
11:17 (2015 video).
Assignment
6.
Compare the
Gaelic |
Scots |
English versions of a Scottish Parliament leaflet.
Dauvit
Horsbroch: The Scots Language ►
19:37 (2011 video).
Scottish Highlands and Lowlands (map).
Dialect
divisions in present-day Ireland (includes Sound Atlas of
Irish English).
Deborah Cameron: Sex
and the Power of Speech (2010) (PDF).
Robin Lakoff: Talking like a
Lady (1973).
Jennifer
Coates: Differing Approaches to Language and Gender (1986,
2004).
The Rapidly Changing Language of American English
► 20:00 (2013 video).
Northern Cities Vowel Shift ►
2:27 (2008 video).
Instructions for the field task.
Presentations
schedule.
Claire Bowern: Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide
(2008).
Australian accent
(broad, general and cultivated) and how to do it ► 3:36 (2012 video).
Australian
accents explained by Simon Taylor ►
3:16 (2013 video).
Samples of Australian English: Malcolm Fraser
(1972), My
Brilliant Career (1979), Julia Gillard
(2012).
The
Etymology of Country (2016).
Aboriginal English ► 9:56
(2014 video).
Chavacano
(Philippine creole) samples:
TV Patrol
Chavacano (23 Nov 2017) ► 36:04 (video).
Ikaw
Chavacano Cover Song ETU ► 5:21 (2015 video)
Tok
Pisin (Papua New Guinea creole) samples:
EMTV
Nesenel Nius (13 Novemba 2017) ►
2:39 (video).
The Three
Little Pigs ► 9:38
(video).
The Story
of Jesus ► 2:07:53
(video).
Today's class is from 10 to
12.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Sala de Audiovisuales
(AV)
de Filología (B0-10).
Sala de Audiovisuales
(AV)
de Filología (B0-10).
Instructions for the written task.
(The instructor's email address: pdcrodas@ull.es.)
Template
for the Degree Final Project in English Studies.
Sala de Audiovisuales
(AV)
de Filología (B0-10).
British Council: Languages for the Future: Which Languages the UK
Needs Most and Why (2013).
Kim
Potowski: No child left monolingual ► 19:08 (2013 video).
Sala de Audiovisuales
(AV)
de Filología (B0-10).
