CBS5131 - Course Syllabus PDF

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CBS 5131
Foundations in Linguistics
and Language Sciences I
Course syllabus
Dr. Candice Cheung
張志恒博士
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General information about this course

• Teaching time for lectures: Tuesday 15:30-
17:20
• Venue: R401
• Medium of instruction: English
• Blackboard:
https://learn.polyu.edu.hk/webapps/login/
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Instructor’s information
• Teacher: Dr. Candice Cheung
• Office: AG 520b
• Email: [email protected]
• Telephone no.: 2766-7538
• Office hours: by appointments
• Personal website:
http://www.cbs.polyu.edu.hk/staff-
en/Candice-Cheung.php
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What will you learn from this course?

• On the theoretical side, you will learn the basic concepts in the
field of semantics and pragmatics, especially those that are
related to speech therapy, in particular autism spectrum
disorders.
• The first part of the course covers various topics in the field of
semantics, such as referring expressions, figurative language,
mental state terms in connection with the theory of mind.
• The second part of the course focuses on pragmatics,
covering topics such as presuppositions.
• Using these concepts, you will learn how to conduct a small-
scale research in clinical linguistics focusing on semantics and
pragmatics. In these ways, we hope to strike some balance
between the theoretical and the applied/practical aspects of
the inquiry.
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Where to find the study materials?

• Blackboard: https://learn.polyu.edu.hk/webapps/login/
• Course syllabus
• Lecture notes
• Readings:
• Two main textbooks
• Supplementary readings
• Individual term paper
• Assessment criteria for individual term paper
• Group presentations
• Group presentation assessment scheme
• A form for submission of topic (due at 9am on Apr 2, 2019;
submit via Turnitin Assignment under “Assessments”)
• Assessments
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Course schedule
Lecture 1 Jan 15 Introduction
Lecture 2 Jan 22 Reference and referring

expressions
Lecture 3 Jan 29 Discourse referencing in
Cantonese
Feb 5 Lunar New Year Holidays
Lecture 4 Feb 12 Theory of mind I

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Lecture 5 Feb 19 Theory of mind II

Lecture 6 Feb 26 Relations between mental
state terms and false
belief understanding
Lecture 7 Mar 5 Figurative language
Lecture 8 Mar 12 More on figurative

language I
Lecture 9 Mar 19 More on figurative

language II
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Lecture 10 Mar 26 Presuppositions

Submission of individual
term paper
Lecture 11 Apr 2 More on presuppositions
Submission of the topic
for group presentation
Lecture 12 Apr 9 Review session
Apr 16 Group presentations

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Assessment
• Individual term paper (50%)
• Date: 9am on March 26, 2019 (No late submission)
• Reflect on the topics you have learned from this course and choose a topic
that interests you most to write a literature review.
• Word count: 1,000 max for English as counted by MS Word (excluding
references and appendices); references should be included at the end of your
paper. You need to specify the word count at the end of the paper.
• Font size 12, Times New Roman, double-spacing
• Use English as the base language. Examples in languages other than
English (e.g. Cantonese ) should be followed by English translations.
• See the handout for the assessment criteria
• See two sample papers: section 1 of Yi et al. (2013) and section 1 of Zhang,
Shao, and Zhang (2016).
• Submission method: Submit your term paper in MS Word format to Turnitin
Assignment on Blackboard by March 26, 2019. Read the originality report to
make sure your term paper does not contain any form of plagiarism. If you
find any form of plagiarism upon 1st submission, you are allowed to revise
your term paper and submit it to Turnitin. However, for the 2nd submission, it
will take 24 hours to generate the originality report and no further submission
will be allowed. Make sure that your (revised) term paper along with the
originality report is generated by the due date.
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Assessment
• Group presentations (50%)
• Date: April 16, 2019 (in class)
• Form 8 groups with 4-5 students. Reflect on the topics
you have learned from this course and choose a topic
that interests you most. Prepare a 12-minute oral
presentation using ppts that includes (i) a literature
review, (ii) your research questions/ hypotheses, and
(iii) your experimental design aiming to answer the
research questions or test the hypotheses.
• Use English as the base language for your group
presentations. You may give examples in Cantonese
or other languages.
• A hardcopy of your ppts (4 slides per each page)
should be submitted to the lecturer at the beginning of
the lecture.
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Readings
• Main textbooks
• Hurford, James, Brendan Heasley, and Michael
Smith. (2007) Semantics: A Coursebook. 2nd edition.
Cambridge University Press. (Available on
Blackboard)
• Levinson, Stephen. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge
University Press. (Hardcopies available at PolyU
library)
• Supplementary readings are available on

Blackboard
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Academic honesty
• You are expected to be honest in performing your
academic assignments. The University takes a
very serious view against dishonesty and
plagiarism in continuous assessment.
• Resources for plagiarism could be found at
http://edc.polyu.edu.hk/psp.htm
• If cases of proven dishonesty and plagiarism
were found, the student(s) will be given a "Fail"
grade for the subject, regardless of the weighting
of the assessment component.

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General information about this course

What will you learn from this course?

Where to find the study materials?

Lecture 2 Jan 22 Reference and referring

Lecture 4 Feb 12 Theory of mind I

Lecture 5 Feb 19 Theory of mind II

Lecture 8 Mar 12 More on figurative

Lecture 9 Mar 19 More on figurative

Lecture 10 Mar 26 Presuppositions

Apr 16 Group presentations

• Supplementary readings are available on

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