Linguistics topics
The folowing are some topics you can choose from for your final paper. Choose one.
Mehtodology:
Choosing the topic.
Make sure you choose a topic you like.
Or that you want to improve your knowledge about.
Make sure that no other student has chosen the same topic.
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.
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.
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:
2. Deciding on the type of essay to write. There are many types you can choose from. Visit the following sites to obtain information
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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.
animal language
the origin of language
child language
first language acquisition
second language acquisition (children)
second language acquistion (adults)
the notion of competence
dialects of American English
dialects of British English
speech disorders (oral)
speech disorders (written)
oral vs written language
rules of conversation
speech act theory
pragmatics
nonverbal language (kinesics)
figurative language
semantics
language and politics
Colombian Indigenous languages
Chomskyan theory
the functions of language
slang
black english (USA)
differences between British english and American english
corpus linguistics
text linguistics
discourse analysis
San Andres Islands english
women´s language vs men´s language
language and style (stylistics)