Module overview
Linked modules
This is the year 1 semester 1 core introduction module for the new BA Language, Culture and Communication
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- apply critical thinking and problem-solving techniques in order to address new issues and new data;
- work effectively in different modes: carrying out individual research and using this as input to collaborations with partners in seminars
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Analyse primary data and case studies
- Apply models of communication to a wide range of language interactions
- Critically assess key issues and approaches to communication and language in use
- Evaluate ways in which communication can be analysed through language and cultural models
- Describe how language and cultural models influence communication
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- methodologies for the study of language in use and its underpinning communicative approaches
- theoretical approaches to communication, language and culture
- the links between meanings, symbols and contexts attached to language in use
- the intersection between language, culture and communication
- mapping of the conceptual and analytical tools which can be used to critically analyse language in use
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 126 |
Seminar | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Ethnographic Encounters Project: Cultural Knowledge for Language Learners.
Journal Articles
Li Wei (2018). Translanguaging as a practical theory of language. Applied Linguistics, 39(1), pp. 9-30.
(2005). Identity and interaction: A sociocultural linguistic approach. Discourse Studies, 7(4-5), pp. 585-614.
Rampton, B., Maybin, J., & Tusting, K. (2007). Linguistic ethnography: Links, problems and possibilities. Special issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, 11(5).
Textbooks
Copland, F., & Creese, A. (2015). Linguistic ethnography: Collecting, analysing and presenting data. Los Angeles: Sage.
Bonvillain, N (2020). Language, Culture and Communication. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Goffman, E. (1971). Relations in Public. London: Allen Lane.
Blackledge, A., & Creese, A. (2010). Multilingualism: A critical perspective. London: Continuum.
Rings, G; Rasinger, S. (2020). The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rymes, B. (2014). Communicating beyond language: Everyday encounters with diversity. London and New York: Routledge.
Bourdieu, P (1991). Language and Symbolic Power. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Delamont S. (1995). Appetites and Identities. London: Routledge.
Gumperz, J. J., & Hymes, D. (1972). Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
Tusting, K. (2019). The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Ethnography. London & New York: Routledge.
Hymes, D. (1974). Foundations of Socio-linguistics. London: Routledge.
Grillo, R (2018). Interculturalism and the Politics of Dialogue. Lewes: B and RG Books of Lewes.
Woolard, K. A. (1989). Double talk: Bilingualism and the politics of ethnicity in Catalonia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Empirical Project | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Empirical Project | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 50% |
Empirical Project | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External