Language, Health and
Aging-G
Spring 2008
T 5.00-8.00 Fretwell 210 & CENTRA Boyd Davis, boydhdavis@yahoo.com
http://www.english.uncc.edu/bdavis
GRNT 4050/ENGL 4050
Campus Office
2.30-4.30 T and by appointment Online Chat +/- audio by appointment
http://library.uncc.edu/classes/name.php?l=Davis&f=Boyd&dept=library
Texts
Harwood, J. 2007. Understanding
communication and aging. Sage
deBot, K. & S. Makoni. 2005. Language
and aging in multicultural contexts. Multilingua.
Articles and chapters are accessible online (electronic reserve), in the
library, or through URLs
Microphone/earphone set (get USB if using a Lab for access) for CENTRA
Nicenet membership: http://www.nicenet.org I will give you the KEY in class
Goals Course is crosslisted
as linguistics and gerontology, so our class supports these goals: Define &
understand
interactions among language, health and aging across the
lifespan; absorb international and transcultural
perspectives on aging; explore and develop technology applications; apply major
models for conversation, discourse, socioopragmatic
and narrative analysis; identify socio-cultural aspects of cognitive/language
development; explore ways to communicate across cognitive impairments; tailor
individual project to personal objectives/interests.
Grades are based on:
30 3 short (45 min) tests: identification/short
essay explaining term or concept
40 4 ‘e-labs’: email AND print versions. 3 of
these will be keyed to transcripts/recordings from the
Carolinas Collection, sponsored by NLM/NIH and collected
by UNCC students. Typically
3 typed pages, tops (12 point, 1
inch margins, Times Roman); concepts previewed in class.
Frames/positioning/involvement in
transcript
Conversation or discourse analysis
of transcript
Narrative analysis of transcript
Photonovella Ppt Storyboard on some aspect of language
interaction and aging or health
20 Weekly
Nicenet postings: 1 posting about assigned
reading, in response to question & 1 full response to a classmate
10 Oral
presentation: choose one of the italicized themes from the calendar, read
additional selections on master reading list, add one from your own career
interests/goals, create abstract as handout for 20 min professional
presentation/workshop given to class during a face-to-face session.
Policies
IRB Human Subjects
Tutorial http://www.research.uncc.edu/tutorial/index3.cfm Either furnish written evidence of having
taken this or go online and take this by Week 3 (we work with some confidential
and restricted material)
Multiculturalism We rejoice in variety and
diversity
Plagiarism.
You are a
professional. If you are concerned about how to research, create group reports,
credit sources, annotate, observe copyright, and the like: please ask me to
help.
Absence policy, or, What
absences will do to you. Each of our
class meetings, whether face-to-face or on CENTRA, is the equivalent of a
week’s daytime meetings. One absence from a night class is the equivalent of 3
daytime absences. More than that single absence, unexcused, from face-to-face
meetings will result in the loss of 3 points per absence from your final grade.
We will rotate speakers on CENTRA nights, and your full participation is
expected.
CENTRA policy: do at least one tutorial; join
us for at least one practice session.
You’ll be mailed your logon. All CENTRA classes will be archived and
saved for you to download. Go to http://elearning.uncc.edu/Centra/
first, and browse links and tutorials, and then try http://centraone.uncc.edu/main/Tutorial/en/US/index.html
for extra tutorials;
When-technology-fails
policy: Chocolate
helps. Email to tell me what is happening.
Calendar
For Centra,You will need microphone/earphones (USB is
easiest to use in labs)
Date |
|
Nice Net readings & tests |
Jan 15 |
Overview;
Harwood 1: Perspectives on Aging; CA tutorial (Antaki);
highlights of language production |
|
Jan 22 |
Harwood
2: Communication Approach to Aging.
Highlights, pragmatics: speech acts,
positioning |
Fought:
Discourse features, pragmatics & ethnicity |
Jan 29 |
Harwood
3: Stereotypes/Attitudes/Intergenerational. E-Lab 1:
Frames/Position/Involvem’t in transcripts. |
Norrick: Hunh-tags; |
Feb 5 |
Harwood
4: Aging/Identity/Attitudes in Inter-generational; highlights, discourse analysis |
Pasupathi: Reflecting on life |
Feb 12 |
Harwood
5: Intergenerational relationships, Harwood 6: Intragenerational;
highlights, politeness |
Test 1 |
Feb 19 |
Harwood
7: Enhancing comm; highlights, metaphor E-Lab 2: ConvAnal/DiscAnal
of transcripts |
Grundy-Henretta, Sandwich generation |
Feb 26 |
Harwood
8: Mass Communication; Harwood 9: Media and the Adult |
Norrick: Interactional remembering |
Mar 11 |
Harwood
10: Culture/Communication/Aging; deBot 1;
highlights Labov/Hymes on narrative analysis |
Narrative
ethics; Story formulations in talk |
Mar 18 |
Harwood
11: Health/care; highlights, narr/discourse
analysis; discourse markers. Preview, photonovelas |
Test 2 |
Mar 25 |
deBot 4: Lang use/skills in healthy/impaired adults;
highlights, pronouns and referentiality |
Schiffrin, Language, experience, history: WWII |
Apr 1 |
deBot 5: Resources, 6: multilingualism & dementia E-Lab 3: Narrative analysis of
transcripts |
Presentation
of self & symp-toms…non-English patients |
Apr 8 |
deBot 7: Bilingual aging, African-Americans; highlights,
phonology/morphology and dialects |
Study
of doctors & patients |
Apr 15 |
deBot 8: Age & education, Chinese in highlights,
Cross-Cult anal; updates,
photonovela |
Test 3 |
Apr 22 |
deBot 9: epidemiology, |
Ryan,
Communication beliefs about youth/old age |
Apr 29 |
E-Lab
4: Photonovela:
short version power point draft; Harwood 13 (conclusion & resources) |
Nicenet forum closes. |
May 6 Exam |
Photonovela final version: Seminar; Test 4
as needed |
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