Masters Program in Acquisition of English and Intercultural Communication Dept. Filologia Anglesa i Germanstica Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona Sept.

. 2009

MODULE DESCRIPTION Module Code ECTS credits Term Schedule Place Language of instruction Module coordinator Coordinators Email Teaching faculty Objectives Intercultural Communication: Culture and Pragmatics of the English Language 40932 15 First term (Fall) Tuesday and Thursday, 15:00 18:00 Facultat de Lletres, Room to be announced English Melissa G. Moyer melissa.moyer@uab.es H. Curell, E. Cod, M. Moyer

1. Recognize and question the bases and ideological arguments of monolingualism in the fields of linguistics and sociolinguistics. 2. Understand and learn about the most important social and cognitive features of individuals and communities. 3. Understand and distinguish the most recent theoretical concepts which are useful for explaining bi /mutlilingualism from the point of view of the individual and the community. 4. Apply the concepts learned to the reality of multilingual societies and to the language production and use. 5. Learn how to describe and explain the role of English as a lingua franca in multilingual contexts. 6. Know how to describe and explain the role of English as a lingua franca in multilingual contexts. 7. Promote original thinking through the practice of constructive criticism and the analysis of the contents of the module as well as the social reality to which the acquired knowledge should be applied.

Content Topic 1 Sociolinguistics of bilingualism and multilingualism 2.1 Historical roots of language and nationalism 2.2 Language and ideology 2.3 Language and colonization 2.4 Language, globalization and immigration 2.5 Europe, post nationalism and multilingual challenges to the nation-state 2.6 Ethnographies of multilingual societies 2.7 English as a world language Topic 2 Applications of the study of multilingualism in specific institutional sites 3.1 The bureaucratic site 3.2 Educational institutions 3.3 Workplaces (i.e., a health center)

Masters Program in Acquisition of English and Intercultural Communication Dept. Filologia Anglesa i Germanstica Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona Sept. 2009

Topic 3 Linguistic aspects of multilingualism and the acquisition of languages 1.1 Introduction to the formation of concepts and the structure of the lexicon 1.2 The notion of concept and word 1.3 A focus on monolingual versus multilingual speakers 1.4 The formation of concepts in two languages 1.5 The concept-lexical interface 1.6 Language and thought Competences 1. Establish and identify the difficulties of intercultural communication and the negotiation of meaning among speakers. 2. Describe measures and guideline for training people who work in multilingual and multilingual contexts and institutions. 3. Explain how speakers create new concepts in a second language and how these concepts restructure the lexicon by adding words and concepts from the second language. 4. Work in group. 5. Communicate oral and written knowledge acquired with a good level of English. Sessions will be organized around open classroom discussion of assigned materials. Students are expected to do the readings regularly and to understand them, so that they can contribute in an active and critical fashion to classroom discussion. Continuous assessment based on class attendance and participation (50%) and final paper (oral presentation and written paper (50%). Topic 1 Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities. London: Verso, 224Pp. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 229 Pp. Bex, Tony & Richard J. Watts (eds.). 1999. Standard English. The Widening Debate. London: Routledge, 312 Pp. Billig, Michael. 1995. Banal Nationalism. London: Sage, 197 Pp. Blommaert, Jan. 2003. Commentary: A sociolinguistics of globalization. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7/4: 607-623. Blommaert, Jan and Jef Verschueren. 1998. The migrant problem. In Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren Debating Diversity. London: Routledge. Brutt-Griffler, Janina. 2002. World English. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 216 Pp. Cameron, Deborah. 2000. Good to Talk? London: Sage Publications, 213Pp. Cameron, Deborah. 2000. Styling the worker: Gender and the commodification of language in the globalized service economy. Journal of Sociolinguistics 4/3: 323-347. Coupland, Nikolas, Srikant Sarangi, & Cristopher Candlin (eds.). 2001. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory. London: Longman. Gellner, E. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell. Giddens, Anthony. 1991. Modernity and Self Identity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Pp. 256 Pp. Hill, Jane. Published on the web pages http://languageculture.binghamton.edu/symposia/2/part1/index.html and to see the pictures in the article consult the address below: http://www.deaflibrary.org/nakamura/courses/linguisticanthro/hill1995slides/

Teaching methodology Evaluation Bibliography

Masters Program in Acquisition of English and Intercultural Communication Dept. Filologia Anglesa i Germanstica Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona Sept. 2009

Hobsbawm, E. J. 1992. Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hutchinson, John & Anthony D. Smith (eds.). 1994. Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 378Pp. Topic 2 Cod, E. (2008) Immigration and Bureaucratic Control. Language Practices in the Public Administration. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Heller, M. & M. Martin-Jones (eds.) (2001) Voices of Authority. Education and Linguistic Difference. Westport, CT: Ablex. Sarangi, S. & C. Roberts (eds.) (1999) Talk, Work and Institutional Order. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Topic 3 Banich, Mary T. & Molly Mack (eds). 2003. Mind, Brain and Language. Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Mahawah, New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum. Gentner, Dedre & Susan Goldin-Meadow (eds). 2003. Language in Mind. Studies in the Study of Language and Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press Gumperz, John J. & Stephen Levinson (eds). 1996. Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Katz, Albert N., Cristina Cacciari, Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr & (eds). 1999. Language and Thought in Development. New York: Oxford University Press. Kecskes, Istvan & Tnde Papp. 2000. Foreign Language and Mother Tongue. Mahwah: Lawrence Earlbaum. Nuyts, Jan & Eric Pederson (eds). 1997. Language and Conceptualization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lamberts, Koen & David Shanks (eds). 1997. Knowledge, Concepts, and Categories. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Nuyts, Jan & Bert Peeters (eds). 1997. Language and Conceptualization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Peeters, Bert (ed). 2000. The Lexicon-Encyclopedia Interface. Amsterdam: Elsevier.