Course organiser:David Chapple
Presenter:Various
This course will be taken by Associate Professor Kevin Watson, Head of the Linguistics Department at the University of Canterbury and his staff.
Topics will include:
The origin and evolution of the English language;
How the Polynesian languages changed as the people spread out across the Pacific to settle in Hawai’i, Samoa, Tahiti, Tonga, Nuie, Aotearoa;
Why and how accents and dialects emerge;
The relationship between language and culture.
This will be a course of substance backed by research and delivered by people who are experts in their field.
3 Oct:
Dr. Lynn Clark on 'History of English.'
10 Oct:
Prof. Jeanette King on 'From Pākehā to Pepeha - Te Reo in Aotearoa.'
17 Oct:
Dr. Jonathan Dunn on 'How Languages are Constructed: Language and Dialect Mapping.'
24 Oct:
Dr. Jonathan Dunn on 'Language and Society: Metaphor / Lexicalization / Stylistics.'
31 Oct:
Dr. Viktoria Papp on 'Linguistics Applied: Forensic Linguistics.'