Linguistics topics

The folowing are some topics you can choose from for your final paper. Choose one.

Mehtodology:

  1. Choosing the topic.

    1. Make sure you choose a topic you like.

      Or that you want to improve your knowledge about.

    2. Make sure that no other student has chosen the same topic.

    3. At the beginning you should choose (3) topics and do some reseach on the availability of books, asrticles on the internet, etc. Topics with little bibliography are a problem for undergraduates.

    4. Once you have decided on the best topic, Communcate it in written form to your instructor.

      Date due for this report is the second week after the Holy Week.

    5. One you have made it known to your instructor you should start doing basic reading to develop an outline. If you don´t know how to make an outline, please go to the following sites on the Internet:

      1. http://web.psych.washington.edu/writingcenter/writingguides/pdf/outline.pd

      2. http://www.bookrags.com/articles/2.html

      3. http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/writinglab/Outline.htm



2. Deciding on the type of essay to write. There are many types you can choose from. Visit the following sites to obtain information


        :

        1. http://www.rscc.cc.tn.us/owl&writingcenter/OWL/Types.html

        2. http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/essay.html

You can also type in google: “types of essays” to obtain a longer list of sites.

3. When to hand in your OUTLINE.

YOU SHOULD BE HANDLING YOUR OUTLINE THREE WEEKS AFTER THE HOLY WEEK FOR REVISION. THIS IS OBLIGATORY.



  1. animal language

  2. the origin of language

  3. child language

  4. first language acquisition

  5. second language acquisition (children)

  6. second language acquistion (adults)

  7. the notion of competence

  8. dialects of American English

  9. dialects of British English

  10. speech disorders (oral)

  11. speech disorders (written)

  12. oral vs written language

  13. rules of conversation

  14. speech act theory

  15. pragmatics

  16. nonverbal language (kinesics)

  17. figurative language

  18. semantics

  19. language and politics

  20. Colombian Indigenous languages

  21. Chomskyan theory

  22. the functions of language

  23. slang

  24. black english (USA)

  25. differences between British english and American english

  26. corpus linguistics

  27. text linguistics

  28. discourse analysis

  29. San Andres Islands english

  30. women´s language vs men´s language

  31. language and style (stylistics)