Languages & Cultures of East Asia

Trad 101, Sections 18-19-20-21   Fall 2000

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Lecture Outlines

• Aug 21 - Course Introduction
• Aug 23 - Introduction to Language
• Aug 28 - Overview of Chinese
• Aug 30 - Overview of Japanese and Korean
• Sept 4 - Labor Day - No class
• Sept 6 - Chinese Writing System
• Sept 11 - Japanese Writing System
• Sept 13 - Korean Writing System
• Sept 18 - Confucianism and Reticence
• Sept 20 - Hierarchy
• Sept 25 - Gender Roles and Gender Distinction in Language
• Sept 27 - Traditional Roles of Women in China
• Oct 2 - Speech Acts - Chinese
• Oct 4 - Speech Acts - Japanese
• Oct 9 - Cross-cultural Communication (1)
• Oct 11 - Cross-cultural Communication (2)
• Oct 16 - Midterm exam
• Oct 18 - Dialects and Minority Languages in China
• Oct 23 - Marginalized Groups in Japan
• Oct 25 - Koreans in China and Japan
• Oct 30 - Phonology (1)
• Nov 1 - Phonology (2)
• Nov 6 - Words in Japanese and Korean 
• Nov 8 - Morphology  
• Nov 13 - Veterans Day - No class
• Nov 15 - Syntax  
• Nov 20 - Syntax-- Japanese and Korean
• Nov 22 - Thanksgiving week - No Class
• Nov 27 - Syntax-- Chinese
• Nov 29 - Rhetorical structure
• Dec 4  - Topic confusion
• Dec 6 -
• Dec 11 - Final Exam

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