LINGUISTICS
LAD
Chomsky...
types of genitives
Attributive (specifying (my mother's hat), classifying (workers' rights)
Independent (It's Mary's)
Semi-independent (Peter's is a nice house)
Post-genitive (a work of Milton's)
Local genitive (The butcher's)
1066
1616
1689
1837?
Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest)
Shakespeare died.
Glorious Revolution (William III of Orange)
Queen Victoria crowned queen
name 5 differences between oral and written communication
TOPICS 5 & 6....
The states of the USA are forbidden to)...
and they have competence in...
Forbidden to: enter into agreement with another state,
have an army, deal with matters of defence...
Competence in: law and order, education, agriculture, public health, day-to-day life...
EDMONSON
Conversational Analysis...
multal and paucal quantifiers
a lot vs few, etc...
Main periods of Victorian England and authors.
Early Victorian (1837-mid century)
Mid Victorian (Mid century-1870's)
Late Victorian (1870's 1901)
7 standards of textuality
Dressler (cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, intertextuality.
Differences between broadsheet and tabloid newspapers
list...
Stages in language learning (mother tongue)
4:Babbling, Holophrastic, Two-word stage, telegraph to infinity.
How do we distinguish phrasal verbs from prepositional verbs?
morphology
pronunciation
Requirements to be a member of the Commonwealth
Parliamentary government with a cabinet system and opposing political parties;
Respect for the rule of law;
Sympathy for federal devices;
Military forces subservient to duly constituted authority;
Independent bureaucracy;
Economies of viable size;
Educational systems rooted in the British model; and
respect for the British crown. (not necessarily recognising the monarch as head of State)
Main periods in the History of Ireland
...
Edward Hall
Cultural iceberg...
BLOOMFIELD
Scaffolding and stimuli-response (TOPIC 2)
assertive territory
universal, assertive, non assertive
Dashell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and P.D.James' detectives
-Continental Op (Maltese Falcon)
-Phillip Marlowe (The Big Sleep)
-Cordelia Grey and Kate Miskin (Unsuitable Job ...)
Dialects within the UK
(TOPIC 66) There are 39 but the most outstanding are:
Soutwestern
South-Eastern
Midlands
Northern
Wales
Scotland
Paige's culture learning
five categories: The self as cultural, the elements of culture (PPP), Intercultural phenomena(culture-general learning), culture specific learning (high or low context) and strategies for culture learning.
Halliday's basic functions of language used by children.
Instrumental, Regulatory, Interactional, Personal, Heuristic, Imaginative, representational (in terms of semantic notions)
... Then the macro-functions (in terms of intentions)...
(1) initiating and maintaining social relationship (Halliday’s interactional); (2) giving and asking for information about objects, people and actions (Halliday’s ideational (experiential and logical); and (3) to express emotional and intellectual attitudes (similar to Halliday’s textual).
theme and rheme
... in relation to passive voice... What we talk about and what we say about it.
George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce....something about them
...life
style
works
(TOPICS 51 & 56)
Dickens...
time (1812-1870)
style & topics
Major works
(TOPIC 47)
Cinema: stages of development
silent
1927 onwards -sound, Golden age of Hollywood, studios
1970s - Movie brats
1990s onwards: merchandising, multimodal, etc...