, Fall 2022

Required: 1. Sedivy, J. (2020). Language in Mind. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. Available from the Queen’s bookstore and on-line retailers in print and as an e-book. A hard copy will be available in Stauffer Library on a 3-hour reserve.

Required: Available from the Queen’s bookstore or on-line retailers. Refer to the Book Club assignment before deciding which one to purchase.

Required: Kinzler, K. (2020). How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Required: McCulloch, G. (2019). Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. New York: Riverhead Books.

Required: Danesi, M. (2020). The Art of the Lie: How the Manipulation of Language Affects Our Minds. Lanham, MD: Prometheus Books.

Listed material: Activities & Assessments 1 Sept 6 Introduction

Listed material: Introductions

Listed material: Sept 8 Charades!

Listed material: Sept 27 Identity Ireland, M.E., & Mehl, M.R., (2014). Natural language use as a marker of personality. In T. M. Holtgraves (Ed.), Oxford library of psychology. The Oxford handbook of language and social psychology (p. 201-208). Oxford University Press. Eckert, P. (2005). Stylistic practice and the adolescent social order. In A. Williams and C. Thurlow (Eds.) Talking Adolescence: Perspectives on Communication in the Teenage Years. (pp. 93-110). New York: Peter Lang.

Listed material: 5 Oct 4 Connecting Duck, S., & Usera, D. A. (2014). Language and interpersonal relationships. In T. M. Holtgraves (Ed.), Oxford library of psychology. The Oxford Language diversity assignment due Friday, Oct 7, 5 pm

Listed material: Psyc 399 – fall 2022

Listed material: p. 8 handbook of language and social psychology (p. 188–200). Oxford University Press. Chapter 12: The Social Side of Language, 12.3-12.4 Misunderstandings assignment – diary entries due Friday, Oct 7, 5 pm

Listed material: Thanksgiving, Fall break: NO CLASSES

Required: 1. Sedivy, J. (2020). Language in Mind. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. Available from the Queen’s bookstore or on-line retailers. Whether you get the electronic version or hard copy, I strongly recommend logging into the companion website for the textbook and checking out the supplemental videos and demonstrations.

Required: Available from the Queen’s bookstore or on-line retailers. Refer to the Book Club assignment before deciding which one to purchase.

Required: Deutscher, G. (2010). Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Required: Everett, D. (2017). How Language Began. New York: New York: W. W. Norton

Required: Kinzler, K. (2020). How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Required: Kulick, D. (2020). A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books

Required: McCulloch, G. (2019). Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. New York: Riverhead Books.

Required: McWhorter, J. H. (2014). The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language. New York: Oxford.

Required: Psyc 399 – winter 2021

Listed material: Activities & Assessments Jan 11 Introduction

Listed material: Chapter 1: Introduction Introduce yourself Book Choice survey Jan 18

Listed material: Language and culture. In Holtgraves, T. (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of language and social psychology (pp. 46- 51). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Listed material: Feb 8 Identity Eckert, P. (2005). Stylistic practice and the adolescent social order. In A. Williams and C. Thurlow (Eds.) Talking Adolescence: Perspectives on Communication in the Teenage Years. (pp. 93-110). New York: Peter Lang. Language diversity assignment due Feb 12, 5 pm Misunderstandings assignment – diary entries due Feb 12 Your book update Feb 15