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	Critical Theory and Systemic Linguistics: Textualizing the Contact Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Because composition’s use of linguistics largely favored formal models of generative grammar and text linguistics, scholars using linguistics were simply unable to confront the ideological issues of power and subjectivity that have become central to the field.
		For systemic linguists, what is not at issue is how the elements of the situation came to be organized that way, whose interests are served by that organization, whether all participants experience that organization in the same way, or whether the organization is itself at issue among participants.
		The problem, epitomized in their work, is that the premises underlying the linguistics of community force researchers either to advocate the dissolution of the dominated group (as with Bernstein) or to criticize as “inauthentic” members of dominated groups who use the dominant discourse (as with Labov).
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/15.3/Articles/2.htm (9521 words)

	Focus (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Focus was later suggested to be a structural position at the beginning of the sentence (or on the left periphery) in Romance languages such as Italian, as the lexical head of a Focus Phrase (or FP, following the X-bar theory of phrase structure).
		Since the focus corresponds to the main stress of the sentence, moving focus is possible by either strengthening the stress of nearby words or destressing anaphors, or words which relate to something previously stated and thus which it would be efficient not to repeat.
		Sound structure (phonological and phonetic) studies of focus are not as numerous, as relational language phenomena tend to be of greater interest to syntacticians and semanticists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Focus_(linguistics) (636 words)

	UMass Amherst :: Linguistics Department :: Course Descriptions
		Focus on developing, evaluating, and improving hypotheses concerning the structure of the language user's unconscious linguistic knowledge.
		Focus on language variation and change, comparative method and linguistic reconstruction, linguistic classification and models of linguistic change.
		This introduction to psycholinguistics is designed to explore the basic psychological foundations of linguistic theory while simultaneously introducing students to the central ideas in contemporary studies of language acquisition and parsing.
	www.umass.edu /linguist/courses/2007/course_desc_S07.shtml (2551 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.1884: Romance Linguistics, Topic & Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As a matter of policy, LINGUIST discourages the use of abbreviations or acronyms in conference announcements unless they are explained in the text.
		CALL FOR PAPERS Topic and focus Utrecht University, December 2 Workshop incorporated in Going Romance, Nov. 30-Dec. 2 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS), Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL) Invited speakers: Knud Lambrecht, Marï¿½a Luisa Zubizarreta (to be confirmed) The workshop will explore topic and focus in Romance Languages.
		Topic and focus have effects on word order, on prosody and on the interpretation of sentences, and as such constitute an ideal empirical domain for the study of the interaction between syntax, phonology and semantics/ pragmatics.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/11/11-1884.html (543 words)

	UMass Course Catalog: Linguistics Courses
		Focus on developing, evaluating, and improving hypotheses concerning the structure and acquisition of the language user's unconscious linguistic knowledge.
		Focus on syntactic and morphological differences, including word order, ways of forming questions and relative clauses, types of passives, applicatives, case, agreement, and clitics.
		Focus on using the tools of theoretical phonology to analyze data from child pronunciations.
	www.umass.edu /ug_catalog/archive_2002/linguistcourses.html (1221 words)

	Seminar Spring 2000: Perspectives on Focus
		Issues of "focus" (and "topic") have become increasingly prominent in recent linguistic analyses, and the purpose of this seminar is to become familiar with some of the major recent work on these issues.
		Focus movement, structural correlates to semantic/pragmatic function; evidence from three Mayan languages and German, primarily.
		Discusses arguments for an in situ analysis of focus based on island constraints, but then concedes that a "scoping" (movement) theory might be just as good when interpretation of multiple foci is at issue.
	www.cog.jhu.edu /~hagstrom/focsem2000.html (3719 words)

	UCSB Linguistics
		The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara stands at the forefront of several converging trends in the field of linguistics, thanks to a series of key decisions made when the department was founded just two decades ago.
		UCSB Linguistics was created to realize a vision of linguistics as a field that would seek explanations for language through an understanding of how it is used by speakers as a fundamental human activity.
		With its focus on analyzing patterns of linguistic structure, identifying patterns of language use, and theorizing the connections between them, over the last two decades UCSB has developed ideas and methods that are critical for moving the field of linguistics into a new era.
	www.linguistics.ucsb.edu (230 words)

	Methodology
		Speech, he said, represents instances of grammar, and the linguist's task is to find the underlying rules of a particular language from examples found in speech.
		As linguistics developed in the 20th century, the notion became prevalent that language is more than speech—specifically, that it is an abstract system of interrelationships shared by members of a speech community.
		The task of the linguist, he claimed, is to describe this universal human ability, known as language competence, with a grammar from which the grammars of all languages could be derived.
	a.parsons.edu /~virapat/thesis/research3.html (1353 words)

	LOT'05: Formal approaches to the interface of syntax and information structure (Meurers, De Kuthy)
		There is a growing awareness that empirically adequate linguistic analyses require all three modules of linguistic representation to be expressed in an architecture supporting constraints within and across the modules.
		Returning to the need for empirically adequate linguistic analyses mentioned in the beginning, the course will end with a discussion of the question how corpus data can be used to inform linguistic research, and what is involved in expressing queries for theoretically relevant classes of data.
		The Representation of Focus in Phonology and Semantics.
	www.ling.ohio-state.edu /~dm/05/lot (466 words)

	College Catalog - Reed College
		The focus of the course shifts from analytic procedures and basic concepts developed in Anthropology 311 to individual research and theoretical problems in linguistics.
		Within linguistics, the analysis of discourse includes the study of linguistic units larger than the sentence and extends, more generally, to the study of stretches of speech (as well as written language) in the context of their use.
		Prerequisite: Linguistics 311, Anthropology 211, or consent of the instructor.
	web.reed.edu /catalog_2005_06/courses/ling/index.html (1543 words)

	Computational Linguistics Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Linguistics 483 provides an introduction to the application of quantitative methods to the study of natural language.
		Quantitative methods include the use of concepts from probability theory to model linguistic processes and the application of statistical methods to the analysis of linguistic data.
		The focus of Linguistics of 484 is on the application of computational methods to the study of natural language grammars.
	web.uvic.ca /~ling48x (315 words)

	Linguistics
		Focus on the organization of sounds, words, and sentences through analysis of data from English and various other languages.
		Focus on practical strategies for teaching each of the four skills, which may include the use of computer-assisted language learning.
		Focus on rural and urban speech communities, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
	www.acs.utah.edu /GenCatalog/1034/crsdesc/ling.html (4755 words)

	Georgetown Linguistics: Graduate Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The perspective on language planning in linguistics is based on the view that language needs to be observed and analyzed as a natural phenomenon, and efforts to improve or influence it must take its nature into account.
		LING-580 Approaches to Discourse Analysis (3) The focus of the course is a comparison among six dominant approaches to the analysis of discourse: pragmatics, speech act theory, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, variation analysis.
		Topics include the historical, sociocultural, and linguistic contexts, the diversity of linguistic forms and their communicative functions, the impact of English on other languages (e.g., German, Japanese) and the implications for theory and application.
	www.georgetown.edu /cball/lx_courses.html (4093 words)

	University of Arizona Linguistics Department, UA Linguistics Department, UofA Linguistics Deparment, Official Website
		While many linguists are polyglots, the focus of linguistics is about the structure, use and psychology of language in general.
		Linguistics is concerned with the nature of language and communication.
		Although linguistics is still largely unfamiliar to the educated public, it is a growing and exciting field, with an increasingly important impact on other fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, education, language teaching, sociology, anthropology, computer science, and artificial intelligence.
	linguistics.arizona.edu /programs/undergrad/whats-ling.php (389 words)

	University of Delaware Linguistics - Research
		A major focus of the linguistics program at the University of Delaware is the study of a wide range of typologically different languages.
		This research is carried out in the context of precise linguistic theory, and students and faculty alike have been very successful in publishing their work in the leading journals in linguistics.
		Linguistics at the University of Delaware is fully integrated into the interdepartmental Cognitive Science Program.
	www.ling.udel.edu /ling/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=6&Itemid=31 (339 words)

	Undergraduate Program at UCI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Honors Program in Linguistics is designed for selected junior and senior Linguistics majors who have shown interest in moving beyond the material covered in the regular undergraduate program and demonstrated their readiness for more advanced work than is usually expected at the undergraduate level.
		If you are sure that you wish to transfer to UCI and major in Linguistics, it is to your advantage to take courses that apply to UCI's breadth plan, because these courses may also satisfy other specific requirements for your UCI degree.
		Linguistics 3 - 10 - 20, for double majors where one major is from school outside Social Sciences: Either Breadth III or Breadth V, but not both.
	aris.ss.uci.edu /ling/undergraduate_bottom.html (1548 words)

	University of Tennessee: Program in Linguistics
		This concentration offers a broad exposure to the various fields of linguistics (including historical, descriptive, theoretical and applied linguistics) along with an opportunity to study areas where linguistics overlaps with other disciplines such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and speech pathology.
		The program of study is designed to prepare a student for graduate work in linguistics or related areas or to serve as a general survey of language and linguistics.
		Language, Linguistics and Society (3) Introduction to linguistics with focus on language development and use of language by individuals and groups.
	web.utk.edu /~germslav/lingbaprogram.html (474 words)

	Science, Technology, & Society
		Focus: research in organizational communication, the use of new communication technologies in the workplace (especially those used by teams to collaborate), issues surrounding the role of communication in creating/expressing a sense of identification with various facets of work (team, employer, profession, etc.), and how these two topics intersect (creating identification in mediated work relationships)
		Focus: interdisciplinary study of modernism, including the relation of modern art to fields such as geometry, science and technology, and mystical and occult philosophies
		Focus: development and application of new optical microscopy/spectroscopy techniques for the analysis of organic, biological and hybrid thin-film materials and devices, use of femtosecond spectroscopy to investigate intermolecular and intramolecular atomic motions during ultrafast chemical processes in solution
	www.sts.utexas.edu /graduate/faculty.html (1110 words)

	The Graduate Program in English: Masters Degree
		The focus is designed for students from a wide variety of undergraduate degrees (communication, education, English, film, theater, etc.); for teachers in the broad range of language skills and art; and for professionals in the media.
		A focus in linguistics/stylistics involves intensive study of the application and theory of the linguistic analysis of literary texts.
		The focus on various aspects of teaching English to speakers of other languages is intended for students and educators who wish to study English as a Second Language (ESL), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), multicultural education, or communication skills.
	www.engl.niu.edu /new/graduate/handbook/ma_handbook.html (2845 words)

	Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language Course Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Exploration of value and relevance of linguistic anthropological, ethnomethodological, sociocultural, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic approaches to study of immigration and second language acquisition.
		Linguistic nature of learners, interlanguage systems, and underlying cognitive mechanisms posited to explain them, as well as various social, affective, cognitive, and neurobiological factors that affect ultimate success of learner.
		Collaborative coursework, with focus on specific theoretical and applied issues in development of innovative language assessment procedures for use in real-world settings.
	www.registrar.ucla.edu /catalog/catalog05-07-1-35.htm (3123 words)

	Anthropological Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Training in anthropological linguistics provides the student with technical and analytical skills that have significant applicability in a wide variety of jobs.
		The student may also choose to continue on to graduate study in linguistics or Linguistic Anthropology.
		Anthropological linguistic skills are also important in the field of domestic communications, including television, print media, and education.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~anthro/anthro-ling.html (148 words)

	Crucial Problems
		In this connection, I find that linguistic historiography and even linguistic theorizing are too often aimed at producing what seem like incontrovertible statements, purportedly based on empirical results or logical arguments, which it is imagined that readers or listeners will sit back and compliantly accept.
		After all, the definition of linguistics is itself a prime example of a crucial problem in Jakobson's sense of the term.
		To approach the latter question we need to concede at the outset that it is not easy to separate linguistics from overall intellectual culture and treat it as a completely autonomous tradition.
	people.ku.edu /~percival/HoL3.html (4357 words)

	IU Computational Linguistics Program : Curriculum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which addresses the use of computers to process or produce human language.
		Linguistics contributes to this field an understanding of the special properties of language data, and also provides theories and descriptions of language structure and use.
		PhD's with a Computational Linguistics focus are possible in the Linguistics Department, in the Cognitive Science Program, in the Psychology Department, in Computer Science and Informatics.
	jones.ling.indiana.edu /~cl/page2.html (310 words)

	NYU Linguistics G61.1710 Syllabus
		In this course we will ask: 'What would Charles Sanders Peirce have said about developments in Linguistics since 1957 and about the current state of the art in generative studies?' A grammar defines a set of sentences/structures.
		Focus on why language acquisition models play a role in explanation.
		Three basic ideas of Cartesian Linguistics: (a) language acquisition and learning, (b) Infinite use of finite means, or recursion, and (c) abstract structure, such as deep structure, D-structure, empty categories, traces, and so on.
	www.nyu.edu /pages/linguistics/courses/g611710/syllabus.htm (901 words)

	SPN 6715 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Creation of 6 activities for focus on form instruction: Taking as a point of reference the instructional activities discussed in class or those found in experimental studies read, students will design a set of activities for focus on form instruction.
		Focus on form in classroom second language acquisition (pp.
		Linguistics, language awareness, and the education of L2 teachers.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/camps/Spring04/SPN6715Spr04w.htm (1923 words)

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		In short, the concept of contrast interfaces with a variety of linguistic phenomena, and the effects of contrast, and its twin, parallelism, are pervasive in natural language.
		Additional focus on the subject for example implies a previous state of knowledge in which for (a set of) alternative(s) for the subject the negation of the proposition held.
		Topic in focus: the syntax, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics of the so-called “contrastive topic” in Hungarian and German.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~spenader/Contrast/Contrast_Right.html (4115 words)

	Connecticut College - Linguistics Courses
		The College supports a Linguistics minor but the students can build a self-designed major as well in Linguistics, drawing upon their study of foreign languages, as well as courses in Philosophy, Anthropology, Human Development, Math, Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience, English and others.
		The course emphasizes problem solving: Linguistic problems and puzzles reveal the true nature of language and equip us with knowledge useful in the study of any foreign language.
		The focus is on social, historical, economic factors that influence language change, on basic principles governing the laws of language change, and on the comparative study of genetically related languages.
	www.conncoll.edu /academics/departments/linguistics/courses.html (416 words)

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