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Preparation work for live session
Preparation work for live session
In this session we're going to practise listening, without video, to an introduction of a series of lectures on the topic of lexicography. We have some linguistics students on the course who may be familiar with this term already, but for the rest of us we're going to find out about something new. We're going to look closely at specific sections of the talk and pick out meaning at the level of sentences and words.
Over the next two weeks our reading and listening texts are going to be focusing on the topic of the English language: who owns it and borrows it, how does it change and, as usual, what are the debates and controversies?
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Live session discussion - task review
Live session discussion - task review
How much did you pick up about the key areas of the talk? Share the notes you made on:
The word-of-the-year vote
The speaker, Anne Curzan
The field of linguistics
What we'll look at in the course
The American Dialect Society
2. How would you define the 'words of the year' that Anne mentions?
Metrosexual
An epic fail
Google-ganger
Dracula sneeze
Recombobulation area
Multi-slacking
3. How accurate was your transcription from page 3? Which words did you have difficulty with?
Live session - critical discussion
Live session - critical discussion
Are the words on the right 'real' words? Should they be in the dictionary?
What examples do you have of words from your own language that have recently started being used because of changes in technology and society?
Does your own language import many words from other languages? Do you have any examples?
Have you imported any English words when you speak in your first language? Has your time at University so far changed the way you speak?
What words are there in your language that young people use, but that older people complain about or don't understand?
Since you’ve been in the UK, what words have you discovered that you believe should be nominated for Word of the Year?
Who should decide which words should enter the dictionary?
If nobody uses a word any more, should if still get a place in the dictionary?
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