流行文化中的社會和語言議題

This course aims to help students understand how linguistic and social issues are reflected in popular culture. Through discussion of popular movies, music, dramas, and TV shows, this course will explore how language is used to reflect social relationships, identities, and cultures in popular materials. Students will be asked to utilize linguistic and sociology concepts learned in class for discussing the pop culture examples and how the language used in pop culture reflects social and cultural issues. By learning the important issues in sociolinguistic use and integrating them into pop culture, this course will train students to apply cultural analysis to understand the relationship between language, culture, and society. Furthermore, the teaching goals include cultivating students’ critical multilingual awareness (CMLA) in various aspects: multilingual cognition, multilingual attitude, multilingual expression, multilingual sociality, and multilingual power. Based on the above dimensions, one or two related popular culture video materials will be utilized every week so that students can understand how multilingual languages are used in the environment and society. By analyzing multilingual situations in popular culture videos, students can have opportunities to experience issues related to the use of multilingualism in a multilingual environment, so as to enhance students’ critical multilingual awareness.

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Lectures, discussions, oral group presentations, film and news analysis

Attendance and In-class Participation 25% Critical Multilingualism Awareness Group Final Presentation 25% Midterm Exam 30% Writing Activity 20% 1. * If you need to take a leave of absence, please remember to follow the school procedure for taking a leave of absence and make sure the form is approved. (More than 2 leave of absences will result in a failing participation grade except for circumstances otherwise indicated or raised.) Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class. If you take attendance after the beginning of each class, it is considered late. Points will be deducted each time for students who are late to class, leave early, or are absent without notice. 2. Policy Regarding the Use of Generative AI In this class, Generative AI should only be used in an appropriate way. For example, you can use ChatGPT to check your Powerpoint file grammar. In contrast, using ChatGPT to generate the draft of your outline, or Powerpoint presentation is NOT acceptable. Also, writing a Chinese assignment and using Google translate or ChaptGPT to convert the whole assignment into English is not acceptable. If you do use generative AI to complete your assignments for this course, your assignments must include a brief explanation of how you used generative AI. For more information, please ask the instructor or check the link for NYCU’s guideline. 3. Engaging in activities unrelated to the course will affect your participation grade. 4. Please write assignments and exams yourself and do not cheat or plagiarize. Once found, the assignment will be graded as zero. Presentations need to give proper references and citations. 5. Please submit your assignments on time. Points will be deducted for the late assignment. 6. There are in-class discussions and activities every week which accounts for part of the final grade. In-class activities should be practiced and conducted during class practice time. 7. Please use E3 websites or email to correspond with the instructor and check your email/E3 regularly.

Hsieh, C. Y. & Su, S. Y. (2024). What are linguists thinking about when they watch TV dramas? Rye Field Publishing. Werner, V. (Ed.). (2018). The language of pop culture. New York: Routledge. Werner, V. (2022). Pop Cultural Linguistics. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.

時間

By appointment

聯絡方式

yrangelho@nycu.edu.tw