Fall 2015 Schedule
Readings should be completed for the day they are listed.
Week 1 (2-4 Sept)
2 Sept Introduction, Syllabus
4 Sept Discussion of Collective Project; Fulcrum download.
Week 2 (7-11 Sept)
7 Sept Opening Ceremony. No class.
9 Sept Missed class due to weather, made up 23 Sept
11 Sept Medieval Background, Lerer 1-53; McCrum 3-40.
Week 3 (14-18 Sept) Variance / Contact / WordPress
14 Sept Transcription lab
16 Sept English and French, McCrum ch 2, Lerer ch 4
18 Sept Wordpress clinic, meet in Fisk lab 204a
Week 4 (21 Sept)
21 Sept Group data consultation & making of a WordPress page for the transcription exercise, meet in Fisk lab 204a
23 Sept Chaucer, Lerer ch 5, McCrum pp. 58-60, Chaucer’s MFW glossary, Chaucer database
Middle English dictionary
24-25 Sept, Eid. No class.
Week 5 (28 Sept)
28 Sept Caxton: McCrum, ch 3 and Lerer ch 8; exercise with Caxton’s prologues; The Atlas of Early Printing
during missed classes: (1) prepare a page on your course wordpress for the map (embed this: https://djw.cartodb.com/api/v2/viz/69c146b2-5b7b-11e5-bb66-0e0c41326911/viz.json) and in your own words describe what you are doing in the mapping project, (2) continue with independent data collection (3) explore the whole dataset and write a blog post describing a feature or two that you find important (4) prepare for in-class response
Week 6 (5-9 Oct)
7 Oct In class response - this is a closed-book exercise, pen to paper, timed at 50 minutes. There will be a choice of 4 questions and you pick 2 to answer.
9 Oct Lerer ch 6, Middle English dialects; A Grand Challenge for Linguistics (Bender/Good)
Explore:
Dialect map of the UK (scroll down in blog) and 2nd Dialect map of the UK
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English
Regional Dialect Variation in the Continental US (Katz)
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (NYT, Dec 2013)
Week 7 (12-16 Oct) - Early Modern Lexicography (Johnson, Webster) / Exploring Dictionaries
Week 8 (19-23 Oct) - Codes : IPA / Unicode / TEI-XML exercise
Week 9 (26-30 Oct) - OED, Crowdsourcing & Victorian reading practices / OED Data
Week 10 (2-6 Nov) - North America Englishes / Our Map Building
Week 11 (9-13 Nov) - Colonial fact and English / In-class responses
Week 12 (16-20 Nov) - African Englishes / Dialect
Week 13 (23-27 Nov) - Asian Englishes / Corpora
Week 14 (30 Nov - 4 Dec) - Wrapup, Final Project Blogs