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COMPARATIVELINGUISTICS

INSTRUCTOR: LE NGUYEN NHU ANH

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 WHAT ISCOMPARATIVE

LINGUISTICS?

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3 approaches to studying

languages

•General linguistics

•Descriptive linguistics

•Comparative linguistics

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Comparative Linguistics

• Languages of diff. speech communities

• compared with each other.

• 3 branches:

• Comparative Historical Linguistics

•  Typological Linguistics

• Contrastive Linguistic

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Contrastive Linguistics

• Major concern: compare any two

or more languages to identify

similarities & differences (Language

typology & family not counted)

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Learning Outcomes

• Understand principles of CL: history,

objectives, methodology & applications

• Develop sound knowledge of both target

and native language systems

•  Apply CL in different ESL areas: teaching,testing, translating & course designing 

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 Textbooks:

1. Contrastive Analysis* (Carl James)

2. Nghiên cứu  đ ối chiế u các ngôn ngữ (LêQuang Thiêm)

3. Ngôn ngữ học  đ ối chiế u (Bùi Mạnh Hùng)

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 YOUR SCORE!

•  Assessment 1 (40%): Open-book test

covering contents from topic 1 to 7.

•  Test date: Week 13.

•  Assessment 2 (60%): Contrastive Linguistics

Essay 

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 Assessment 2 (Details)• Topic of Essay: Compare and contrast one

linguistic aspect between Vietnamese and

English

• Referencing: APA style.

• Length: at least 2500-3000 words

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Late Assessment

• Students are expected to submit each

assessment on or before the duedeadline date. Failure to do so will

result in a 10% penalty per calendar

day. An assignment more than 7days overdue will not be marked.

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Schedule

•  Week 1: Course Orientation

•  Week 2: Research Instructions

• Structure of a Research

•  APA Style

•

Research Methodology 

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Schedule

•  Week 3: TOPIC 1: HISTORY AND OVERVIEW OF CL

•  What is CL?

• CL history 

Readings: James (1992) Chapter 1; Krzeszowski (1990) Chapter 1; Thiem(2004) Chapter 1,2,3

•  Week 4: TOPIC 2: CL CONTRIBUTIONS

• Contribution to linguistics

• Contribution to language teaching 

• Contribution to testing & translation

Readings: James (1992) Chapter 6; Krzeszowski (1990) Chapter 9, 12

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Schedule

•  Week 5: TOPIC 3: CL PRINCIPLES AND METHODOLOGIES

• Contrastive Principles

•  Analysis Steps

•  Two basic approaches

Readings: James (1992) Chapter 3 & 4; Krzeszowski (1990) Chapter 2, 3, 4; Thiem (2004) Chapter 17

•  Week 6: TOPIC 4: CL LEVELS: PHONOLOGY

• Segmental phenomena

• Suprasegmental phenomena

• Contrastivng sound systems

Readings: Odlin (2000) Chapter 7; James (1992) Chapter 4

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•  Week 7: TOPIC 5: CL LEVELS: LEXICAL CL

•  Types of Lexical CA

• Six cases for formal & semantic similarity 

•  Word field contrast

•  Week 8: TOPIC 6: CL LEVELS: GRAMMAR

• Morpheme CA

•  Word CA (formation, transformation, part of speech)

• Phrase CA

• Sentence CA

Readings: Odlin (2000) Chapter 5 & 6; James (1992) Chapter 4

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•  Week 9: TOPIC 7: CL LEVELS: PRAGMATICS

• History of Pragmatics CA

• Pragmatic TC

•  Two directions for analysis

• Steps in pragmatics CA (Ch. Fillmore) [3 steps]

• Other area for analysis (Politeness, Conversation structures,

Cross-cultural differences)

Readings: Odlin (2000) Chapter 4; James (1992) Chapter 5

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•  Week 10:

•  TOPIC 8: ENGLISH & VIETNAMESE VOWELS

• ESSAY TOPIC AND OUTLINE SUBMISSION

•  Week 11:

•  TOPIC 9: ENGLISH & VIETNAMESE CONSONANTS

•

DEADLINE FOR TOPIC AND OUTLINESUBMISSIONINSTRUCTOR'S FEEDBACK ON TOPIC ANDOUTLINE

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Schedule

•  Week 12: OFF

•  Week 13: Assessment 1

•  Week 14: OFF

•  Week 15: END-OF-TERM ESSAY

SUBMISSION