Semester 1 Outline
Weeks
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Topics
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Specificity
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7-9
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Language and Culture
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Link btw. Language/Culture; Uniqueness of
Humans
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Language vs. A Language
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Active Competence vs. Passive Competence
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Characteristics of Language
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Uniqueness: Human-based, Systematic, Symbolic
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Purposes and Functions of Language
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Communication, Reflection, Ritual, Expressive
etc.
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Caribbean’s Linguistic Situation
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Slavery and Domination
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Pidgin, Dialect, Creole, Jargon, Slang, Register
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Origin
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Characteristics of Creole Languages
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Features
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Acrolect Mesolect and Basilect
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Post Creole Continuum
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Attitudes to Creole and Standard English
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Positive and Negative
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Types of Discourse /Styles of Writing
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NEAD-Narration, Exposition, Argument,
Description
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Click on comments for Definitions of Language.
