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Wednesday 05 March 2008

Week 07 Day 13

 

Announcements

 

Features of the Day

 

Midsemester Examination

Blue book for exams.

 

 

  • Return Midsemester Examinations

  • Check:

  • Presentation Information and feedback

     

    for your research papers try the
    UMD Library > Research Tools and Resources > Assignment Calculator
    <http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/index.phtml>

    The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m. ,
    ( from today)

    The Term Paper is due by Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:59 p.m. ,
    ( from today)

    Papers are due to WebDrop
    at
    <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>



  • REM: Term Project (term paper/class presentation) Abstract, Outline, and Bibliography
  • REM:, to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu> The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m.


  • Old Business


  • Languages / Linguistics and Communication (slides)

    • phonemics
      • the study of basic sounds
    • phonetics
      • the study of sound units
    • morphemics
      • the study of how sound units combine to form "words"
    • syntatics
      • the study of rules of sentence and phrase structures
    • semantics
      • the study of meaning
    • kinesics
      • the study of "body language" -- motion
    • proxemics
      • the study of "body language" -- space


    • categorizing (stereotyping)?
    • Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
    • semantics
      • ethnosemantics?
      • ethnoscience?
      • "componential analysis"?
      • semantic domains
      • Anthropac?
 

Old Business

 

Assignments

  • Read: Ch. 6, "Everyday Cognition," pp. 171-184

  • Review: Ch. 4, "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes," 94-125
 

Notes

  • Wednesday 27 February 2008: Ended with first section, "with ESP do you have concepts without percepts?"
  • Monday 03 March 2008: Finished Old Business and Features of the Day, except for optical illusions, Basic concepts, Major Schools, and Review of Concepts
     

 

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Monday 10 March 2008

Week 07 Day 14

 

Announcements

 

Features of the Day

 

  • Old Business


  • linguistics and communication (cont.) (slides)

    • phonemics
      • the study of basic sounds
    • phonetics
      • the study of sound units
    • morphemics
      • the study of how sound units combine to form "words"
    • syntatics
      • the study of rules of sentence and phrase structures
    • semantics
      • the study of meaning
    • kinesics
      • the study of "body language" -- motion
    • proxemics
      • the study of "body language" -- space
 

Old Business

Optical illusion stress test.

Optical illusion, circles.

 

 

Assignments

  • Read: Ch. 6, "Everyday Cognition," pp. 185-197
 

Notes

  • Monday 03 March 2008: Finished Old Business and Features of the Day, except for optical illusions, Basic concepts, Major Schools, and Review of Concepts
  • Monday 10 March 2008: Finished linguistics and communication to #39 "Degeneration" (slides)
 

 

        
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