LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ENG 694/ APY 694/ COL 733/ AMS 694
Readings
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Reading for November 14:
Goffman, “The Lecture”
Tedlock, “Toward a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatability”
Reading for November 7:
Dauenhauer, "Koyukon Riddle-Poems"
Malinowski, "The Meaning of Meaningless Words and the Coefficient
of Weirdness"
Ortiz, Song, Poetry and Language-Expression and Perception
Reading for October 31:
Tedlock and Mannheim's Dialogic Emergence of Culture, introduction
and chapters 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, and 9
Reading for October 17:
Lee, “Linguistic Reflection of Wintu Thought”
Lakoff and Kövecses, “The Cognitive Model of Anger Inherent
in American English”
Frake, “The Ethnographic Study of Cognitive Systems" and "How
to Ask for a Drink in Subanun”
Reading for October 3:
Friedrich, “Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy”
Sampson, “The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis”
Whorf, “An American Indian Model of the Universe” and “The
Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language”
Reading for September 19:
Tedlock, “The Boy and the Deer” and “Phonography and
the Problem of Time”
Note that as of 9/13/00, there's additional material to consider when
reading “The Boy and the Deer.”
Reading for September 12:
Aristotle, chapters 20-21
Note that this was handed out in class; it may not be posted yet.
Jakobson, chapters 7, 8, 10, 19, 23
Read chapter 23 first.
Lévi-Strauss, “The Structural Study of Myth”
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