Last modified: 05 Oct 2023 08:46
Linguistic varieties come into contact regularly in our everyday existence. These contacts can amount merely to a few words being borrowed, but they can lead to much greater conclusions, where a variety’s nature is so changed that its ancestry cannot be reconstructed. This course covers how contact through language death, bilingualism, imperialism and new settlement can create a new linguistic variety.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course is concerned with the ways in which linguistic contact can bring about language change. While contact is an everyday reality, its results can range from a few words being borrowed from a particular language (as with kayak and anorak, from the Inuit of Greenland) to the absolute mixture of two originally discrete languages, as is the case with Michif (a language spoken in the prairies of Canada and the United States), where some features are French, while others are Cree.
This course will lead you through a number of processes where linguistic contact causes language change:
The course will be assessed according to a range of different methods, designed to allow your particular talents to shine. These will include the analysis of data.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 12 | Feedback Weeks | 15 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided via TurnItIn |
Word Count | 3000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | To evaluate international examples of language contact/change within the framework of concepts covered in the course content. |
| Factual | Understand | To understand the differences processes through which language contact can bring about linguistic change. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 | Feedback Weeks | 12 | |
| Feedback |
Tutorial/Seminar Participation Mark. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | To evaluate international examples of language contact/change within the framework of concepts covered in the course content. |
| Factual | Understand | To understand the differences processes through which language contact can bring about linguistic change. |
| Procedural | Analyse | To analyse linguistic data in relation to issues of contact and change. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 10 | Feedback Weeks | 11 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided through TurnItIn, soon after the presentation. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Evaluate | To evaluate international examples of language contact/change within the framework of concepts covered in the course content. |
| Factual | Understand | To understand the differences processes through which language contact can bring about linguistic change. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 8 | Feedback Weeks | 11 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided via TurnItIn |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Analyse | To analyse linguistic data in relation to issues of contact and change. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback | Word Count | 3200 | ||
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Factual | Understand | To understand the differences processes through which language contact can bring about linguistic change. |
| Procedural | Analyse | To analyse linguistic data in relation to issues of contact and change. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | To evaluate international examples of language contact/change within the framework of concepts covered in the course content. |
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