SYLLABUS IN ELE 122 CSSH-

ENGLDEPT
(Language, Culture and Society)

Course Description: This course allows the students to explore the inextricable link between and among
language, culture, and society and its implications to the development of English as a global language and the ways
by which it is learned and taught. With this, they must demonstrate content knowledge and application of the lingua
franca to cultural, societal, and even pedagogical development through a study of research-based principles in
language and language teaching. Also, they must be able to gain insights of responsive learning environments in
terms of language and community/society needs.
Course Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate content knowledge and application of the relationship of language, culture and society in the
perspective of English Language Teaching;
2. Apply research-based knowledge and principles of English language teaching and learning through case
presentations and journal reviews; and
3. Demonstrate an understanding of knowledge of language learning environments that respond to community
contexts.
Prerequisites:
ELE121
Credits: 3 units

Course Requirements:
1. Webinar participation
2. Critical Paper (Ind)
3. Group Reports (Oral and Written)

Grading System:

40% - Exams (Mid+Final)

30% - Reports (Written and Oral), Quizzes, Assignments, Long Quizzes, Attendance
30% - Literature Review
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100%

Course Outline:

I. LINGUISTIC COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE: An Overview

A. Nature of Language and Language Study
1. Language, Macro Skills, Communicative Competence, Views on Language and Components
of Grammar
2. First Language (L1) VS. Second Language (L2), Native Language VS. Mother Tongue VS.
Foreign Language
3. Pidgins and Creoles
4. Macro and Micro Linguistic Studies
5. Prescriptive VS. Descriptive
6. Diachronic VS, Synchronic
7. Oral VS Written Language
B. Plurality of Language
1. Linguistic Universals and Universal Grammar
2. English VS. Englishes
3. Standard English
4. Common Language VS. Multilingualism
5. World Englishes
6. Kachru’s Concentric Circles
7. Philippine English
C. Language and Humans
1. Features of Human Language by Hockett
2. Halliday’s Language Functions
3. Non-Human Communication (Animal Languages)
4. Animal Consciousness
5. Experiments on Languages and Animals

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II. Linguistic Anthropology: Language and Culture

A. Account on the Origin of Language

B. Biblical, Mythological, Historical and Scientific Accounts
C. Otto Jesperson’s Language Origin Hypotheses
D. Semiotics or Sign Language
E. Icon, Index, Symptom, Signal and Symbol
F. Sign Languages (Finger Spelling, Filipino Sign Language, other means of SL, etc.)
G. Theories in Language and Culture: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Ethnopoetics, Oral Gesture Theory by
Paget

III. Historical Linguistics: Language and History

A. Historical Timeline of Noteworthy Linguists (from Aristotle to Lowth, Jones, De Saussure, Chomsky)
B. Historical Development of Language (Evolutionary or Darwinian)
C. Historical Development of English (from Anglo-Saxon to Global English)
D. The English Language Family Tree
E. The Genetic Classification of Languages
F. Types of Languages
1. Proto Indo-European
2. Proto-Germanic
3. Old English, Middle English, and Modern English
G. Changes in the English Language - Why do Language Change?
1. Grimm’s Law
2. Great Vowel Shift
3. Phonological Change
4. Morphological Change
5. Syntactic Change
6. Lexical Change
H. Extinct and Endangered Languages
I. The History of Writing
1. Pictograms and Ideograms
2. Cuneiform Writing
3. The Rebus Principle
4. From Hieroglyphics to the Alphabet

IV. Sociolinguistics: Language in Society

A. MULTILINGUAL SPEECH COMMUNITIES

1. Language Choice in Multilingual Communities
a. Varieties, codes, repertoire
b. Disglossia
c. Code-switching or code-mixing
2. Language Maintenance and Shift
3. Linguistic Varieties and Multilingual Nations
a. Vernacular languages
b. Standard languages
c. Lingua francas
d. Pidgins and creoles
4. Creoles and Creolization
5. National Languages and Language Planning

B. LANGUAGE VARIATIONS: FOCUS ON USERS

1. Regional and social dialects

2. Gender and age
3. Ethnicity and social networks/class
4. Language and Power (Politeness Theory)

C. LANGUAGE IN USE

1. Styles
2. Slang
3. Jargon and Argot
4. Taboo or Not Taboo?: Euphemisms
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5. Racial and National Epithets

6. Secret Languages and Language Games

V. APPLIED LINGUISTICS
A. Philippine English
B. Varieties of Philippine English (Yaya English by Bautista, Colehiala English by Perez)
C. Sociolinguistic Varieties of Philippine English by Llamzon (Acrolect, Mesolect, Basilect)
D. “Slanguages” in the Philippines (Jologs or Salitang Kalye, Beki Language/Swardspeak, Jejemon)

References:

Mananay, J & Sumalinog, G. (2021). Language, Culture and Society. Lorimar Publishing, Inc.
Stanlaw, J, Adachi, N., & Salzmann, Zdenek. (2018). Language, culture, and Society. Routledge.

Prepared by:

Prof. Rossel Audencial Mangaron

Instructor

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