Week of	Topic	Readings	Primary source
Early Modern English
January 4, 6	Medieval to modern	Crystal 4 (54-5), 5 (56-9) Millward 6 (144-6, 211-22); 7 (224-8, 248-50, 254-6) MW 7.4, 7.5 (GVS) The Bible in English: William Tyndale (T. Ward) Great Vowel Shift website	King Henry V’s correspondence Biblical translations: un/authorized, MS & print Caxton, “The ‘egg’ story” (Crystal 57)
	Language in London
	The Grε:→e:t Vowel Shift
January 10^th: First research paper due (630 pm) January 10^th: Online registration deadline for (FREE) conference: “Canadian English in the Global Context” (28-30 January 2005)
January 11, 13	Grammar: change	Crystal 5 (64-5, 70-1) Millward 7 (265-83) MW 7.9 (3,4,8,11,15); 7.11 (thematic key) Thou and you (Cheratra Yaswen)	Parallel biblical translations Thou and ye, -eth and -s: Durham ecclesiastical court depositions, c1560 (Hope); Sidney. “The Nightingale”; Shakespeare, sonnet 73, Hamlet III.1.
	Grammar: choice (1) and more choice (2)
	Resources: CHEL, Gorlach, Jespersen

January 18, 20	Latin in English: integrating loanwords; the layered learned lexicon of medicine and literature	Crystal 5 (60-3) Millward 7 (228-31, 235-40, 283-5, 289), 8 (325-7) MW 7.19 Latin (A. Di Giovanni), Law (D. Barleben), and Milton (Z. Pickard) New resource: LEME	Latinate and native, excerpts and effects from the OED (Latin words new in 1600 / in Bacon’s 1626 works); in PDE (“The language of doctor and patient”). Shakespeare, sonnet 87’ Donne, “Loves Infiniteness”; Milton, Paradise Lost 7.276- (1667); Wheatley, “To the university of Cambridge, in New-England” (1773)
	Literary applications: Shakespeare, Milton (Donne, Wheatley)
January 25, 27	Phonology: Consonants &	Crystal 5 (69) Millward 7 (250-60) MW 7.3, 7.25 (1) (for class 1 Feb)
	Not-so-great vowel shifts
	Exercise/resource: Shakespeare’s pronunciation
Friday 28-Sunday 30 January (UC 161, 140): “Canadian English in the Global Context”

Later Modern English
February 1, 3	Recording and regulating: Lexicon	Crystal 5 (66-7, 72-5), 6 (76-82, 86-89), 13, 21 (366-7) Millward 7 (231-48), 8 (302-10, 310-15, 315-25)	Excerpts from various dictionaries: Cawdrey, Bailey, Johnson, Sheridan, Walker Excerpts from various grammars: Fisher, Lowth, Cobbett
	Grammar
	Pronunciation
February 8, 10	Lexemes: borrowing from European languages and more exotic languages; describing occupational varieties: C18th cookery books;	Crystal 8-12 Millward 7 (285-97), 8 (327-40) Borrowings from French (D. Jurcic), Spanish (R. Schwarz), and languages from Africa (T. Ward)	Registers: Cookery Explorers: Cook OED entries: “coffee,” “connoisseur”, “-eer”, “hors d’oeuvres”, “rendezvous”, “sherry”
	Lexical borrowing and colonization: Captain Cook		OED advanced search results (Cook/first cited; African/first cited)
Reading Week

‘Colonial to postcolonial’
February 22, 24	English in the US	Crystal 5 (80-5), 7 (92-4, 96-7), 20 (298-317) Millward 9 (349-63)
	English slang and jargon: introduction to tutorial projects
March 1, 3	English in Canada: settlement & features	Crystal 7 (95), 20 (340-3) Millward 9 (363-9)
	Thursday 3 March: Katherine Barber, editor of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary
Tuesday March 8^th: Research paper 2 due (6pm)
March 8, 10	Englishes in the world T10: Pidgins, Creoles, and non-native Englishes	Crystal 7 (98-115), Crystal 20 (344-63) Millward 9 (344-7, 393-405) “Global English: lingua franca or hegemony?” (Rebecca Schwarz)
	R10: English as an official language
	T11: Tutorial presentations John M. Mark N. Adam T. Amy Z.
Tuesday March 8^th: take-home given out in class

Social variation
March 15, 17	T10-12: Tutorial presentations Bich A. Carla B. Joanna C. Brianna G. Janet G. Jonathan H.] Jason R. Linda S.	Crystal 12 (174), 21 (370, 372 [6.87])
	R10: Occupational registers: academia (literary criticism)		Postcolonial studies: language Sonnet l’Abbé, “How poems work”
March 22, 24	Language and identity: T10: ‘Code-switching, styleshifting’	Crystal 12 (177), 21 (368-9) Spanglish (S. Olague)	Agard, “Listen Mr Oxford don”, Dabydeen, Turner XXIV, “Slave song”; Ezekiel, “The Patriot”, R. Parthasarathy, “What is your good name, please?
	R10: ‘Political correctness’
	T11: Tutorial presentations 1. Sarah H. 2. Sean I. 3. Tracy L. 4. Nirwan M.
March 24^th: Take-home test due
March 29, 31	English for sale: Technology & advertising	Crystal 21 (388-9, 393)	Insecticides; Waste business: “Total Decon” Holistic dentistry
	T11: Tutorial presentations 1. Daryl C. 2. Donna M. 3. Kristina S. 4. Jenny S.
April 5, 7	E-nglish (or e-nglish?) Email: extending the stylistic range of English The language of the internet: English dominance or heteroglossia? (Susan C. Herring)	Crystal 23 Email (B. Fliss) Caslon net metrics & statistics guide: demographics The Multilingual internet: special issue of Journal of computer-mediated communication 9.1 (November 2003)
	T11: Tutorial presentations 1. Tovah A. 2. Joshua B. 3. Chanel C. 4. Christine D.
April 8^th: Written version of ‘slang and jargon’ tutorial project due (to CP at Wetmore Hall by 4 pm so I can get it to Anthony)