| Course title | |||||
| 社会言語情報論 [Language and Information in Society] | |||||
| Course category | technology speciality courses | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Year | 2～4 | Semester | 3rd | |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 022661 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 篠原 和子, 宇野 良子 [SHINOHARA Kazuko, UNO Ryoko] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Engineering | Office | afjgxte/L1151 | Email address | |
| Course description |
| When dealing with information, it is essential to understand language and society. Since people use computers, electronic technology, and information technologies through natural language, engineers and researchers in these fields should have fundamental knowledge about human language. Therefore, this course deals with important properties of natural language and some aspects of linguistic theories so that students majoring in EECS will have basic knowledge about natural languages and language faculty of human beings. |
| Expected Learning |
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Students taking this course are expected to: 1. understand characteristics of world languages, the history of modern linguistics, and the basic ideas and methods of subfields of linguistics, 2. understand the main theories of linguistic relativity. 3. understand typological characteristics of the Japanese language 4. understand characteristics of natural language from cognitive scientific point of view. 5. understand basics of research ethics, and know how to behave as participants in experiments. For diploma policy, see the curriculum map of TUAT. |
| Course schedule |
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1. Guidance, Experiment 1. 2. World languages and Japanese. History of modern linguistics [1]: Historical Linguistics, Saussure 3. History of modern linguistics [2]: Structuralism, Generative Grammar, Cognitive Linguistics. 4. Characteristics of natural language: arbitrariness, productivity, displacement. 5. Linguistic relativity [1]: Sapir=Worf Hypothesis, language and thought 6. Linguistic relativity [2]: experimental studies (Levinson's studies, spatial cognition) 7. Wrap up of the first half, exam. 8. Language typology and the Japanese language 9. Comparing and contrasting English and Japanese 10. Language as an extension of "mind" 11. Artificial language and natural language 12. Evolinguistics 13. Wrap up of the second half, exam. 14. Evaluation and explanation of the exams 15. Research Ethics, Experiment 2. See curriculum maps. |
| Prerequisites |
| N/A |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Materials will be distributed in class. |
| References |
| To be announced in class. |
| Assessment/Grading |
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Participation and contribution to the class: 20% Understanding of the lectures #2-6 will be tested by the exam: 40% Understanding of the lectures #8-12 will be tested by the exam: 40% |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Course keywords |
| linguistics, natural language, linguistic relativity, cognitive science, evolution |
| Office hours |
| need an appointment by Email |
| Remarks 1 |
| Remarks 2 |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 12/25/2019 6:07:18 PM |