On this page you will find links to all sorts of helpful and interesting things relevant the course. If you find anything that you think would be helpful or interesting, leave a comment with a link and I will have a look and add it to the page.
Please read the document linked below for information regarding our class plans and assignment during the COVID19 social distancing process:
ENGL 390 COVID19 class plan and instructions
Please read the document below for instructions regarding the remaining readings and their application to your class contribution grade:
ENGL 390 COVID19 readings revision and instructions March 17 2020
TIP SHEETS AND LIBGUIDES
The following link takes you to my main blog where I have gathered up tip sheets and resources for writing and learning. Feel free to download anything that you find useful on this page: http://blogs.unbc.ca/dicksonl/downloadables/
Annelise’s Lesson on Dictionaries
Annelise’s Google Doc for Etymology Exercise
Annelise’s LibGuide for Etymology and Language with link to the OED and MLA database
OED in Two Minutes: Interactive Visual Map of Etymology, Year by Year
POWERPOINTS
LANGUAGE IS introduction to the course concepts REVISED 2020
Sign Language_Guest Lecture by Dr. Bill Owen
Expansion, Dialect, Standard English
LEXICOGRAPHY a Very Brief Taste
NEW Lecture Notes:
Beyond Grammar Synthesis Lecture Ch 4-7 March 2020
SKETCHNOTES and CONCEPT MAPS
Late Middle Ages Linguistic Apartheid concept map
AUDIO AND VIDEO
NETFLIX: Abstract: The Art of Design features two typographic artists: Paula Sher (she designed the brand look of the Band-Aid box, and a million other labels and album covers and signs you see every day), and Jonathan Hoefler, a font designer and head of Hoefler&Co (see links in the Websites of Interest section on this page). Both both episodes offer a fascinating peek into the world of word-art and typographic design that permeates our world. See Hoefler wrestle with the curves and squares of a new font. It sounds dull but is really fascinating.
Fastest Hip Hop Sign Language Interpreter : Amber Galloway Gallego
TEDMED: How Sign Language Can Bring Music To Life: Amber Galloway Gallego
Animated map showing the spread of language through Europe and Asia: https://youtu.be/KdQwalCPNAs
Indo-European Connection: https://youtu.be/SqK7XXvfiXs
Beowulf in translation read by Seamus Heaney: https://youtu.be/AaB0trCztM0
Thug Notes: Beowulf (Warning for language): https://youtu.be/Xh8akuq-MDI
Call Me Maybe in Anglo-Saxon: https://youtu.be/Ptp_v7chhm4
99% Invisible Podcast: “10,000 Years”: 10,000 Years
M. Nourbese Philip, “Discourse on the Logic of Language”: https://youtu.be/424yF9eqBsE
The New Statesman podcast w/ Neil Gaiman on Freedom of Speech and Expression in Britain: https://audioboom.com/posts/2739407-podcast-special-neil-gaiman-talks-to-index-on-censorship
Jamila Lyiscott: 3 Ways to Speak English (Politics of Dialect): https://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_3_ways_to_speak_english
WEBSITES OF INTEREST
Hoefler&Co. a Font Design Company (featured on the Netflix series, “Abstract”)
“These Are Letters” Demonstration of Typographical Illusions used in Font Design, from Hoefler&co.
The Beginner’s Guide to the Renaissance Book–Getty Museum of Art
Medieval Handwriting Index of Samples
Huntington Library Searchable Digital Ellesmere Chaucer
Caxton’s Canterbury Tales, British Library Digital Copy
RESEARCH PROJECTS: A CACHE OF INTERESTING THINGS I HAVE FOUND WHILE WANDERING THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY
RHETORIC AND PERSUASION
Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” at archive.org, DL index page: https://archive.org/details/PoliticsAndTheEnglishLanguage
American Association of Colleges and Universities on Civil Discourse: https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/plea-civil-discourse-needed-academys-leadership
On Being, Civil Conversations Project (podcasts):http://www.civilconversationsproject.org/
The Starter Guide: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52e04689e4b06ba19ad5a957/t/58ee9cc5bf629a9dbf438b59/1492032709477/onbeing_ccp_guide_12April2017.pdf
LANGUAGE AND (DE)COLONIZATION
Chinua Achebe “English and the African Writer” on JSTOR (need to sign in to UNBC library acct or access in the library): http://proxy.library.unbc.ca:2084/stable/2934835 (stable URL)
Nourbese Philip, “Discourse on the Logic of Language” video: https://youtu.be/424yF9eqBsE
LANGUAGE AND DIFFERENCE
Globe and Mail commentary on protecting transgender people via us of pronouns (Bill C16): https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/protecting-transgender-people-means-protecting-our-pronouns/article35149520/
CENSORSHIP/FREE SPEECH
Library of Parliament Research Publications: Canadian Anti-Hate Laws and Freedom of Expression: https://lop.parl.ca/Content/LOP/ResearchPublications/2010-31-e.htm
Canadian Civil Liberties Association: Freedom of Expression: https://ccla.org/focus-areas/fundamental-freedoms/freedom-of-expression-2/
Huffington Post Opinion: Think Canada has Free Speech? Think Again: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tom-kott/freedom-of-speech-canada_b_2324999.html
The New Statesman podcast w/ Neil Gaiman on Freedom of Speech and Expression in Britain: https://audioboom.com/posts/2739407-podcast-special-neil-gaiman-talks-to-index-on-censorship
John Milton, Aereopagitica at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/areopagitica00miltuoft