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There is some direct discourse represented in the extract, from Efie. Use that for evidence of semantic change, but you can ignore the dialect change evidence.
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There is some direct discourse represented in the extract, in Efie's speech. Use that for evidence of semantic change, but you can ignore the dialect change evidence.
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Some words might //seem// not to have changed in meaning. //Rapper//, for instance. But take care to consider the larger semantic field in which the words occur in the text.
On the phonemic side, //Mutha// is a change from the word //mother//. Your task is to identify what kind of phonemic or morphemic change this is, and to determine if there are other examples of other changes that follow similar rules. Cf the word //crete//.
Some words or phrases appear to involve more than one change. //lawds and luvvies//. There's a phonemic change. //Lawds// = lords, and //luvvies// comes from //love// as a social term of endearment. (Ask Emma and Krista about being called //luv//). But in the text //lawds and luvvies// are distinguished from //subjects of the island//, which signals that there's a semantic change, too. Try creating a lexical field or tree for the terms to trace similar changes.
On the phonemic side, //Mutha// is a change from the word //mother//. Your task is to identify what kind of phonemic or morphemic change this is, and to determine if there are other examples of other changes that follow similar rules. Cf the word //crete//.
Some words or phrases appear to involve more than one change. //lawds and luvvies//. There's a phonemic change. //Lawds// = lords, and //luvvies// comes from //love// as a social term of endearment. (Ask Emma and Krista about being called //luv//). But in the text //lawds and luvvies// are distinguished from //subjects of the island//, which signals that there's a semantic change, too. Try creating a lexical field or tree for the terms to trace similar changes.
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On the phonemic side, //Mutha// is a change from the word //mother//. Your task is to identify what kind of phonemic or morphemic change this is, and to determine if there are other examples of other changes that follow similar rules. Cf //crete//.
Some changes appear to involve more than one change. //lawds and luvvies//. There's a phonemic change. //Lawds// = lords, and //luvvies// comes from //love// as a social term of endearment. (Ask Emma and Krista about being called //luv//). But in the text //lawds and luvvies// are distinguished from //subjects of the island//, which signals that //meaning// has changed. Try creating a lexical field or tree for the terms.
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In some English dialects, an initial unvoiced //th-// is phonemically realized as /f/. //Things// can be heard spoken as //fingz//.
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//Describe and analyze//: Use catalogs, lists, clusters, diagrams, trees - with explanations where necessary. Organize your work under headings that isolate a feature if you engage in prose descriptions or speculations. Draw on Curzan for techniques. You are not writing an essay, so you do not need introductions, overviews, conclusions. But speculations grounded in linguistic principles are ok. In each case, focus on specific features or topics that, in your estimation, are linguistically interesting.
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In some English dialects, an initial unvoiced //th-// is phonemically realized as /f/. //Things// can be heard spoken as /fIngz/.
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We don't have any gender or identity data, so those can't be addressed, but some interaction can:
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Digital version available at http://biro.erhetoric.org/wikka.php?wakka=ENGL6880Final It might be easiest to work with the texts in digital form.
Drop your work off outside my office door, or in my PO box. Or email as PDF or Word doc.
Drop your work off outside my office door, or in my PO box. Or email as PDF or Word doc.
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=== Due Tue 12 Dec, end of day ===
Drop it off outside my office door, or in my PO box. Or email as PDF or Word doc.
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Describe and analyzed this extract from //The Book of Dave//, by Will Self, for //semantic change//. You'll need to consider phonemic and morphemic change in your descriptions of semantic change. Draw primarily on Cuzan chap 7, but also chap 9. Present your analyses by using lists, tables, trees, lexical fields, definitions, or whatever analytical methods you use, drawing from Curzan.
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Describe and analyzed this extract from //The Book of Dave//, by Will Self, for //semantic change//. You'll need to consider phonemic and morphemic change in your descriptions of semantic change. Draw primarily on Cuzan chap 7, but also chap 9. Present your analyses by using lists, tables, trees, lexical fields, definitions, or whatever analytical methods you use, drawing from Curzan.
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===== ENGL 6880 Final =====
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Use ExtractFromBookOfDave
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//Describe and analyze//: Use catalogs, lists, clusters, diagrams, trees - with explanations where necessary. Headings that isolate a feature if you engage in prose descriptions or speculations. Draw on Curzan for some techniques. You are not writing an essay, so you do not need introductions, overviews, conclusions. But speculations grounded in linguistic principles are ok. Focus on specific features or topics that, in your estimation, are linguistically interesting.
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//gaff// in current English means house or apartment considered a //home//. Use the OED for other words.
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- cuddleup and snuggledown
On the phonemic side, //Mutha// is a change from the word //mother//. Your task is to identify what kind of phonemic or morphemic change this is, and to determine if there are other examples of other changes that follow similar rules. Cf //crete//.
Some changes appear to involve more than one change. //lawds and luvvies//. There's a phonemic change. //Lawds// = lords, and //luvvies// comes from //love// as a social term of endearment. (Ask Emma and Krista about being called //luv//). But in the text //lawds and luvvies// are distinguished from //subjects of the island//, which signals that //meaning// has changed. Try creating a lexical field or tree for the terms.
There is some direct discourse represented in the extract, when Efie speaks. Use that for evidence of semantic change, but you can ignore the dialect change evidence.
On the phonemic side, //Mutha// is a change from the word //mother//. Your task is to identify what kind of phonemic or morphemic change this is, and to determine if there are other examples of other changes that follow similar rules. Cf //crete//.
Some changes appear to involve more than one change. //lawds and luvvies//. There's a phonemic change. //Lawds// = lords, and //luvvies// comes from //love// as a social term of endearment. (Ask Emma and Krista about being called //luv//). But in the text //lawds and luvvies// are distinguished from //subjects of the island//, which signals that //meaning// has changed. Try creating a lexical field or tree for the terms.
There is some direct discourse represented in the extract, when Efie speaks. Use that for evidence of semantic change, but you can ignore the dialect change evidence.
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On the phonemic side, //Mutha// is a change from the word //mother//. Your task is to identify what kind of phonemic or morphemic change this is, and if there are other examples of other changes that follow similar rules. Cf //crete//.
Some changes appear to be pretty involved. //lawds and luvvies//. Lawds = lords, but luvvies is not a simple phonemic change. It probably starts with //luv// as a social term of endearment. (Ask Emma and Krista about being called //luv//). But in the text //lawds and luvvies// are distinguished from //subjects of the island//, which means the meaning has changed. Try creating a lexical field or tree for the terms.
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In some English dialects, an initial unvoiced //th-// is phonemically realized as /f/. //Things// can be heard spoken as /fIngs/.
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Some changes appear to be pretty involved. //lawds and luvvies//. Lawds = lords, but luvvies is not a simple phonemic change. It probably starts with //luv// as a social term of endearment. (Ask Emma and Krista about being called //luv//). But in the text //lawds and luvvies// are distinguished from //subjects of the island//, which means the meaning has changed. Try creating a lexical field or tree for the terms.
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Analyze the following transcript of a dialect using SAE as your point of comparison. Address phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical features. You might make a categorized list of where this dialect departs from SAE, or you might construct a catalogue of its distinctive features. Semantics might come into play, so keep the Cuzan chapter on semantics in mind.
==== Part 3: Semantics and Semantic Change ====
Describe and analyzed this extract from //The Book of Dave//, Will Self, for semantic change. You'll need to consider phonemic and morphemic change in your descriptions of semantic change. Draw primarily on Cuzan chap 7, but also chap 9. Present your analyses by using lists, tables, trees, lexical fields, definitions, or whatever analytical methods you use, drawing from Curzan.
The passage shows changes in meaning, in morphemic realization, phonemic realization, and additions to the lexicon.
You're looking for evidence of semantic change to collect and define as patterns and regularities that seem to follow linguistic rules. The passage is written in a fictional written dialect, but it also includes some spoken dialect. You'll need to decide how to address the spoken dialect in your analysis.
You might construct a lexical field or a lexicon as a way to start this and show how and what the words means. Or tree the semantic relationships in the changed lexicon (-nyms). You will have to consider the syntactic roles (221). Consider if you are seeing patterns of generalization or specialization. Or perhaps metaphorical extension. Or others. There are clusters of non-standard words. You'll need to locate and collect these and discuss what is happening morphologically and semantically.
A few examples of clusters I've located
- mummytime
- daddytime
- mummyselves
- cuddleup and snuggledown
- Ham
- Hamster
- Dave
- davine
- moto
- moto oil
Some words seem not to have changed in meaning. //Rapper//, for instance. But take care to consider the larger semantic field in which the words occur in the text.
On the phonemic side, //Mutha// is a change from the word //mother//. Your task is to identify what kind of phonemic or morphemic change this is, and if there are other examples of other changes that follow similar rules. Cf //crete//.
Some changes appear to be pretty involved. //lawds and luvvies//. Lawds = lords, but luvvies is not a simple phonemic change. It probably starts with //luv// as a social term of endearment. (Ask Emma and Krista about being called //luv//). But in the text /?lawds and luvvies// are distinguished from //subjects of the island//, which means the meaning has changed. Try creating a lexical field or tree for the terms.
== Glosses ==
//barnet// = hair. The 20th century source is rhyming slang: //Barnet Fair//.
//gaff// in current English means house or apartment considered a //home//. Try the OED for other words.
In some English dialects, an initial unvoiced //th// is phonemically realized as /f/. //Things// can be heard spoken as /fIngs/.
==== Part 3: Semantics and Semantic Change ====
Describe and analyzed this extract from //The Book of Dave//, Will Self, for semantic change. You'll need to consider phonemic and morphemic change in your descriptions of semantic change. Draw primarily on Cuzan chap 7, but also chap 9. Present your analyses by using lists, tables, trees, lexical fields, definitions, or whatever analytical methods you use, drawing from Curzan.
The passage shows changes in meaning, in morphemic realization, phonemic realization, and additions to the lexicon.
You're looking for evidence of semantic change to collect and define as patterns and regularities that seem to follow linguistic rules. The passage is written in a fictional written dialect, but it also includes some spoken dialect. You'll need to decide how to address the spoken dialect in your analysis.
You might construct a lexical field or a lexicon as a way to start this and show how and what the words means. Or tree the semantic relationships in the changed lexicon (-nyms). You will have to consider the syntactic roles (221). Consider if you are seeing patterns of generalization or specialization. Or perhaps metaphorical extension. Or others. There are clusters of non-standard words. You'll need to locate and collect these and discuss what is happening morphologically and semantically.
A few examples of clusters I've located
- mummytime
- daddytime
- mummyselves
- cuddleup and snuggledown
- Ham
- Hamster
- Dave
- davine
- moto
- moto oil
Some words seem not to have changed in meaning. //Rapper//, for instance. But take care to consider the larger semantic field in which the words occur in the text.
On the phonemic side, //Mutha// is a change from the word //mother//. Your task is to identify what kind of phonemic or morphemic change this is, and if there are other examples of other changes that follow similar rules. Cf //crete//.
Some changes appear to be pretty involved. //lawds and luvvies//. Lawds = lords, but luvvies is not a simple phonemic change. It probably starts with //luv// as a social term of endearment. (Ask Emma and Krista about being called //luv//). But in the text /?lawds and luvvies// are distinguished from //subjects of the island//, which means the meaning has changed. Try creating a lexical field or tree for the terms.
== Glosses ==
//barnet// = hair. The 20th century source is rhyming slang: //Barnet Fair//.
//gaff// in current English means house or apartment considered a //home//. Try the OED for other words.
In some English dialects, an initial unvoiced //th// is phonemically realized as /f/. //Things// can be heard spoken as /fIngs/.
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==== Part 2: Dialect Variation ====
Analyze the following sample transcript of a dialect using SAE as your point of comparison. Address phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical features. You might make a categorized list of where this dialect departs from SAE, or you might construct a catalogue of its distinctive features. Semantics might come into play, so keep the Cuzan chapter on semantics in mind.
Robeson County African American (60+ -year-old female)
People don't sing no more. I tells the people, the people at our church, until we get back to singing something to the Lord, I don't know if Jesus understands what people singing today, cause I don't understand it, I'm not Jes- I don't understand. You hear all this loud music and you don't hear no words. But we need to sing something that's understanding so that we can sing praises to the Lord. Now I'm not saying it might be, he-, he- he-, he's-, he can hear all things, you know, because he s, he s all in all, and I know he understand. But I still think we ought to serve the Lord wi-,wi-wi, with songs that sings praises to him. Cause you know it's something lacking in our churches and I believe that's what it is. And our men folks is not interested; they need to be there. The beautifulest time I ever seen I went to a church out from Lillington, North Carolina.
from https://ils.unc.edu/afporch/afp_dl01.html
Analyze the following sample transcript of a dialect using SAE as your point of comparison. Address phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical features. You might make a categorized list of where this dialect departs from SAE, or you might construct a catalogue of its distinctive features. Semantics might come into play, so keep the Cuzan chapter on semantics in mind.
Robeson County African American (60+ -year-old female)
People don't sing no more. I tells the people, the people at our church, until we get back to singing something to the Lord, I don't know if Jesus understands what people singing today, cause I don't understand it, I'm not Jes- I don't understand. You hear all this loud music and you don't hear no words. But we need to sing something that's understanding so that we can sing praises to the Lord. Now I'm not saying it might be, he-, he- he-, he's-, he can hear all things, you know, because he s, he s all in all, and I know he understand. But I still think we ought to serve the Lord wi-,wi-wi, with songs that sings praises to him. Cause you know it's something lacking in our churches and I believe that's what it is. And our men folks is not interested; they need to be there. The beautifulest time I ever seen I went to a church out from Lillington, North Carolina.
from https://ils.unc.edu/afporch/afp_dl01.html
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- performative speech acts
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We don't have any gender or identity data, so those can't be addressed, but some interaction can
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- tags
- discourse markers
- phonology, morphology where it appears, syntax
=== The Sample ===
- cooperative principle
- conversational implicature
- communicative competence
- turn taking and the conversational floor
We don't have any gender or identity data, so those can't be addressed, but some interaction can
- interrupts
- tags
- discourse markers
- phonology, morphology where it appears, syntax
=== The Sample ===
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