Your final exam will be on Wednesday, December 19, from 12:30-2:30pm, in our usual classroom (CAS 221). The exam will consist of several short-answer responses, of the sort that you are now familiar with. (There will be no longer, essay-style response.) Although the final exam will be longer than your quizzes have been, it will not …
The following reading is entirely optional–part of the material will figure into our F 12/7 class meeting. I’m making the reading available for those of you who are particularly interested, and would like to read the remainder of the paper on your own: Boroditsky, Lera. 2001. Does language shape thought? Mandarin and English speakers‘ conceptions of …
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For Wednesday 12/5, please read pgs. 114-127 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Whitney, Paul. 1998. The Psychology of Language, Chapter 4 (‘Theories of the Language-Thought Relationship’). Additionally, I’ve posted the following optional reading (though quite short, and rather humorous), which describes the history of certain exaggerated …
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