linguistics assignment for 1-4, 2009

2. What’s the relationship between pidgins and creoles? 3. What’s Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis? Make some comment on it

Chapter 9 Psycholinguistics

What’s Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis? Make some comment on it.

Chapter 9, 11 and 12 Second Language acquisition Please refer to oral presentation parts.

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Oral presentation

Hi, my dear students, ○

Now you are going to do some team projects based on the following topics. I am sure you will try your very best to present them in a clearest and most logical way!

Chapter 6 Pragmatics

1. The Cooperative Principle and its applications in English and Chinese cultures

2. The Politeness Principle and its applications in English and Chinese cultures

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Chapter 8 Sociolinguistics

1. What’s the relationship between pidgins and creoles? Has China gone through both pidginazation and creolization processes?

2. How is gender difference reflected through language? Give examples in both English and Chinese cultures. 3. What is standard language? Should

we learn standard language (e.g. Standard English) only? Why and why not?

4. What do you know about the English

taboos and euphemisms? Any differences from the Chinese ones?

Chapter 9 Psycholinguistics 1. What’s Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis? Make some comment on it. What’s the relationship between language and thought anyway?

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Chapter 9, 11 and 12 Second Language acquisition

1. Generally speaking, there are three prevalent approaches on first language acquisition, namely, the behaviorist approach, the innateness approach and the interationist approach. Which one is more plausible to you and why?

2. What are the differences between L1 acquisition and L2 language learning? What are the implications for foreign language teaching?

3. What is the Input Hypothesis and what is the implications for language teaching?

4. What is the Output Hypothesis? What is the implications for language teaching?

5. How do cognitive styles affect our

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