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WINTER QUARTER 2007 CHINESE 580 The Chinese Language Description and Analysis Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A.

1. REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
   Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Paperback.   [Available from SBX. 1806 N. High Street. 291.9528]
   

2. ADDITIONAL READINGS
   
   1. E-Journal Articles:   These e-journal articles (in PDF format) can be retrieved from OSU's online catalog. First, go to OSU Libraries <library.osu.edu>, and under Quicklinks, select "E-Journals" and find the relevant e-journal title. Alternatively, go to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC) to locate the e-journal. (Note that one can also click "Search" at the EJC catalog website to locate a specific e-journal article via author name, article title, etc.)
      

   2. Other Readings:   These readings -- articles and book chapters (also in PDF format) -- can be retrieved under this course in Carmen.osu.edu. (Articles at Carmen include those scanned to PDF format by OSU's Electronic Reserves.)

SULLIVANT (MAIN) LIBRARY RESERVE
Reference books may be placed on Reserve in Sullivant (Main) Library if needed during the quarter, in addition to the textbook (on 2-hour loan). (Note: Reserved materials for a given course are listed online for the current quarter only.)

Note: The William Oxley Thompson Library -- a.k.a. "Main Library" -- is currently under renovation. Main Library Reserve is now housed in Sullivant Library, serving as the temporary Main Library. For where collections are stored during this three-year renovation project beginning Autumn Quarter 2006, consult OSU Libraries for changes and updates.

Check OSU Libraries <library.osu.edu> for an online list of books placed on Reserve for this course. Under Quicklinks, select either "Reserves by Course" or "Reserves by Professor".

This is a survey course introducing important elements of the Chinese language -- its structure, dialects, and writing system -- as well as such topics as the history of the language, language acquisition, language planning, and language use in society, including gender-linked differences in language use. Taught in English, this course was originally designed as one of the Ohio State University's General Education Curriculum (GEC) third-level writing courses.

The course aims to give students an overview of important elements of the Chinese language and its use. Covered also are other topics concerning the Chinese language. As a course designed to be a GEC third-level writing course, Chinese 580 has a three-fold objective with respect to the intellectual growth and development of the students: (1) to improve their skills in expressing themselves with clarity both orally and in writing, (2) to develop their ability to read carefully and critically demanding texts, and to analyze and synthesize the ideas and concepts in them, and (3) to improve their research and library skills through individual research projects.

Students are expected at the end of the course to have acquired a basic understanding of the structure of the Chinese language, together with knowledge of related topics, and be able to write and discuss critically the various issues that have been studied in the course. Students are encouraged to explore and research further on topics covered in the course.

The course will be conducted through lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings, individual and small-group assignments in class, and students' presentation of homework assignments and their individual research project. Course work includes students' selection of a research topic, their bibliographic search in the library system and online for relevant materials, and a term paper (about 10-12 pages, typed and double-spaced) demonstrating ability to analyze critically the selected research topic.

1. Read and reflect on all assigned readings prior to class lectures and discussion.
2. Attend class regularly (heed the wisdom of the Mother of Mencius).
3. Participate actively in class discussions and individual/group activities.
4. Submit three homework assignments (each about 3-4 double-spaced pages, including references).[1]
5. For the final project:
   
   1. Turn in a one-page, double-spaced, final project proposal with select references by Week 6. Submit a digital copy to the Dropbox for the course at Carmen.osu.edu.
   2. First draft of the research paper or a progress report (about 2 to 3 pages) in Week 8.
   3. Present an oral version of the final project at the end of the quarter.[2]
   4. Submit the final term paper in hardcopy and in digital format. (The main text itself should be equivalent to about 10 double-spaced pages.)[3]
6. All course assignments in digital format are to be uploaded to the Dropbox in Carmen.osu.edu under Chinese 580.

[1] These may be reactions papers, critical and comparative analyses, or preliminary empirical research on specific questions based on the readings and other resources. The assignments should be submitted in hardcopy format and in digital format (DOC, RTF, or PDF format).

[2] Prepare a digital file in PowerPoint format for a PowerPoint presentation in class.

[3] Submit the final project in digital format (RTF, DOC, or PDF) in addition to a printed, hardcopy version.

DISABILITY SERVICES
Students with disabilities that have been certified by the Office for Disability Services will be appropriately accommodated, and should inform the instructor as soon as possible of their needs. The Office for Disability Services is located in 150 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue (Tel: 292.3307. TDD: 292.0901).

ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT
Students are advised to adhere to The Ohio State University's Code of Student Conduct, with particular reference here to "Academic misconduct." The University's policies on academic misconduct will be enforced in accordance with Faculty Rule 3335-5-54. Academic misconduct is defined as "[a]ny activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the university, or subvert the educational process." (See section 3335-23-04 Prohibited conduct.) Relevant examples of academic misconduct include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Violation of course rules as contained in the course syllabus or other information provided to the student; violation of program regulations as established by departmental committees and made available to students;

• Knowingly providing or using assistance in the laboratory, on field work, or on a course assignment unless such assistance has specifically been authorized;

• Submitting plagiarized work for an academic requirement.
  Plagiarism is the representation of another's work or ideas as one's own; it includes the unacknowledged word-for-word use and/or paraphrasing of another person's work, and/or the inappropriate unacknowledged use of another person's ideas.
  [Note: OSU's Center for the Study of Teaching and Writing (CSTW) provides a definition of plagiarism together with Basic Citation Rules and Examples, including use of direct quotes versus paraphrasing, etc.]

• Submitting substantially the same work to satisfy requirements for one course that has been submitted in satisfaction of requirements for another course, without permission of the instructor of the course for which the work is being submitted.

Note that ignorance of the University's Code of Student Conduct is never considered an "excuse" for academic misconduct; hence, be sure to review the sections dealing with academic misconduct in the Code of Student Conduct. Be sure also to read the University's Ten Suggestions for Preserving Academic Integrity and/or the Eight Cardinal Rules of Academic Integrity (from Northwestern U.). The University's policy on academic misconduct will be enforced in accordance with Faculty Rule 3335-5-54, and all alleged cases of academic misconduct will be reported to the Office of Academic Affairs' Committee on Academic Misconduct (COAM) for resolution.

Students with questions concerning the University's policies or questions concerning academic or research misconduct are encouraged to ask the instructor any time during the quarter.

Attendance	10%
Class discussions/participation	20%
Homework assignments (3)	30%
Research project (all phases)	40%
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	100%

SCHEDULE

WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION
		01/04	Preliminaries Introduction and orientation Carmen course management system OSU Libraries' catalogue and other resources Lecture: Introduction to articulatory phonetics and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

WEEK 2: THE SOUND SYSTEM OF MODERN STANDARD CHINESE I
01/09	Modern Spoken Chinese: Language Planning in Historical Perspective Discussion of reading:     - Chen, Ch. 2 In-class activities: Nomenclature (Putonghua, Guoyu, Huayu); etc.	01/11	Phonetics and Phonology of Modern Standard Chinese Discussion of reading:     - Chen, Ch. 3.1-3.2 In-class activity: Romanization systems and their comparisons     MC's Links to Romanization charts

WEEK 3: THE SOUND SYSTEM OF MODERN STANDARD CHINESE II
01/16	Modern Standard Chinese: Norms and Variations Discussion of readings:     - Chen, Ch. 3.3-end     - Blum (2004)     Due: Homework 1.	01/18	In-Class Recording and Speech Analysis In-class recording and analysis using speech analsysis software Examples of utterances and their comparison: . Chinese 580 (Au00): Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 . Chinese 680 (Au00): Set 4 | Set 5

WEEK 4: WORD-FORMATION AND LEXICAL CHANGES
01/23	Word-Formation Discussion of reading:     - Ramsey, Ch. 5 (pp. 49-65) In-class activities: classifier system; noun-verb derivation	01/25	Naming Practices and Language Change Discussion of reading:     - Chen, Ch. 6.3-6.4     - Wang and Micklin (1996)     Due: Homework 2.

WEEK 5: THE GRAMMAR OF MODERN STANDARD CHINESE
01/30	Grammatical Structure Discussion of reading:     - Ramsey, Ch. 5 (pp. 65-73)	02/01	Grammatical Structure and Prosody Discussion of reading:     - Ramsey, Ch. 5 (pp. 73-end)     Intonation of declaratives and echo Q's - ex. with: Tone 1 | Tone 3     Intonation and ma/a S-final particles - ex. with: Tone 1 | Tone 2 | Tone 3 | Tone 4

WEEK 6: MODERN CHINESE DIALECTS
02/06	Modern Chinese Dialects Discussion of reading:     - Chen, Ch. 4     MC's Links to Chinese dialectology resources     Due: A one-page, double-spaced abstract of research paper topic and select references.	02/08	Language Policy, Language Attitude, and Language Choice Discussion of reading:     - Sandel (2000)

WEEK 7: HISTORICAL SOUND CHANGE AND HOMOPHONY
02/13	History of the Chinese Language: Sound Change Discussion of reading:     - Ramsey, Ch. 7 Charts & tables from Chinese 681:     - Chronology     - Periodization of Chinese Phonology     - Periodization - Sources     - Yunjing: 36 Initials	02/15	Homophony, Lucky Words and Luck Talk for Chinese New Year (18 February 2007, Year of the Pig) Discussion of readings:     - Fong (2000)     - Sung (1979) (~ skim)       Other class activities to celebrate Chinese New Year     Due: Homework 3.

WEEK 8: THE CHINESE SCRIPT AND MODERN WRITTEN CHINESE
02/20	The Chinese Writing System Discussion of reading:     - Chen, Ch. 8     - Chen, Ch. 9 (~ skim) PRC's 2000 language and script law (10-31-00) (GB) [Alt URL]	02/22	Modern Written Chinese in Historical Perspective Discussion of reading:     - Chen, Ch. 5     Due: First draft of research paper or progress report on research paper.

WEEK 9: LANGUAGE USE AND THE SOCIO-CULTURAL SETTING
02/27	Modern Written Chinese and the Impact of the Internet Discussion of reading:     - Gao and Yuan (2005)	03/01	Greetings and Compliment Events Discussion of readings:     - Hong (1997)     - Christensen (2006)     - Ye (1995) (~ skim)*       *Study esp. gender-linked differences.

WEEK 10: FINAL WEEK ACTIVITIES
03/06	Student presentations   Chinese Computing: Short Demo & Tutorial - M. Chan	03/08	Student presentations

WEEK 11: EXAMINATION WEEK
Due 5:00 p.m., MONDAY, 12 March 2007: Research paper.   Submit (1) a hardcopy in the instructor's mailbox in DEALL, 398 Hagerty Hall, and (2) a digital copy in the Dropbox in Carmen. (Note: Request for extension must be made by Week 10.)

READINGS

1. TEXTBOOK

• Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  [On 2-hour Reserve (Wi'07) at Sullivant (Main) Library. Call Number: PL1083 .C525 1999]

2. READING SELECTIONS

   E-journal articles can be retrieved at OSU Libraries (click under Quicklinks to select "E-Journals") or go to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC) to locate the e-journal. (At the EJC website, one can also click "Search" at the top menubar to search the database for the specific e-journal article via searching by "Any Field" (default setting), "Article Title", "Author Name", etc.) All other readings can be retrieved from the course site in Carmen.osu.edu.

1. Charts, figures, tables.

2. Blum, Susan D. 2004. "Good to hear: Using the trope of standard to find one's way in a sea of linguistic diversity." In: Minglang Zhou (ed.), Language Policy in the People's Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pages 123-141.

3. Christensen, Matthew B. 2006. "你好 and greeting strategies in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 41.3:19-33.

4. Fong, Mary. 2000. "'Luck talk' in celebrating the Chinese New Year." Journal of Pragmatics 32:219-237. [E-journal article]

5. Gao, Liwei and Rong Yuan. 2005. "Linguistic construction of modernity in computer-mediated communication." In: Qian Gao (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-17). Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Pages 66-83.

6. Hong, Wei. 1997. "Language changes in Chinese: Evidence from the service industry." Linguistische Berichte 167:23-31.

7. Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton U. Press. [Excerpts: Chapter 5 ("The Standard (Grammar)"), pp. 49-86; Chapter 7 ("History"), pp. 116-142.]

8. Sandel, Todd L. 2003. "Linguistic capital in Taiwan: The KMT's Mandarin language policy and its perceived impact on language practices of bilingual Mandarin and Tai-gi speakers. Language in Society 32: 523-551. [E-journal article]

9. Sung, Margaret. 1979. "Chinese language and culture: a study of homonyms, lucky words and taboos." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 7.1:15-28.

10. Wang, Zhigang and Michael Micklin. 1996. "The transformation of naming practices in Chinese families: Some linguistic clues to social change." International Sociology 11.2:187-212. [E-journal article]

11. Ye, Lei. 1995. "Complimenting in Mandarin Chinese." In: Pragmatics of Chinese as Native and Target Language, edited by Gabriele Kasper. Honlulu: U. of Hawaii Press. Pp. 207-302 (including appendices and references). [Book on 1-day Reserve (Wi'07) at Sullivant (Main) Library. Call Number: PL1291 .P73 1995]

SOME WEB RESOURCES

• Ohio State University:
  
  • OSU's Online Resources at Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW).
    Excellent resources, "handouts", tutorials, etc., to assist undergraduate students -- and those for whom English is a second (or third) foreign language -- in their research and writing. The Center also provides a web page on plagiarism, giving a definition of plagiarism, together with a set of Basic Citation Rules and Examples, including use of direct quotes versus paraphrasing, etc. To cite books for this course, one recommendation is to use the sciences style for bibliography and in-text citations in the Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide, available online from OSU Libraries.
  • net.TUTOR (OSU Libraries' set of online tutorials, such as developing research skills in using WWW and other Net resources)

• Student Resources for Compositions and Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (Composition Center, Dartmouth College)
  NOTE: How to cite a webpage -- include three pieces of information: title, URL, and date of access - for example:
  

  Marjorie Chan's Chinese 580. The Chinese Language: Description and Analysis (Winter 2007) <http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c580.htm> [Accessed on 4 January 2007].

• On-line Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources (Online Writing Lab, Purdue University)

• Ohio State University subscribes to a number of linguistics journals with recent issues digitized and available online in PDF and/or HTML format. The benefits are many: it reduces shelving space, eliminates "lost" and "missing" items, and enables instantaneous downloading and multiple-user access for research and course work.

  To retrieve articles from these e-journals, go to:
  

  • OhioLink: Electronic Journal Center. (E-journals include Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language, etc.) Alternatively, go via OSU Libraries' E-Journal Titles to search for an electronic journal or to browse alphabetically by title or by subject. Some sources of e-journals:
    
  • Cambridge Journal Online (OSU subscriptions include: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Language in Society, Language Variation and Change, Phonology, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.)
  • ISTOR (Depository of back issues of journals, including e-journals for Asian studies, such as Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (beginning with Volume 1 (1936), Journal of Asian Studies (beginning with Volume 16 (1956) and archived Volumes 1-15 (1941-1956), published under the title, The Far Eastern Quarterly; OSU Columbus only))
  • Periodicals Contents Index (PCI): Electronic Index to Journal Articles. (Chadwyck-Healey's electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. (Participants in JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II Collections can now link directly from the relevant index records in PCI to the corresponding full text within JSTOR.)

• Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) (library catalogs, research databases, etc.)

• OhioLINK - Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Center. The ETD Center is a free, online database of the state of Ohio's masters and doctoral theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. It contains the abstract for all included theses and dissertations. The full-text is also available if it was submitted.

• Journal Abstracts and Full-Text (Blackwell Synergy Search Engine) Online search of articles from 873 leading journals published by Blackwell, including those in social and behavioral sciences, of which a subgroup is "language and linguistics". Access to abstracts and full-text (PDF files) also if OSU Libraries subscribes to a given e-journal.

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Online, searchable database through OSU Libraries.

• RedLightGreen.com. (RedLightGreen.com delivers information from members of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) concerning more than 130 million books for education and research; and it links students back to their campus libraries for the books they select. Founded in 1974, RLG is a nonprofit membership corporation of universities, national libraries, archives, and other memory institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning.)

• Linguist List: 2006 Tables of Contents (TOC) (for some linguistic journals, and links to back issues as well)

• Indices/Tables of Content of some Chinese linguistics journals (subscribed by OSU Libraries):
  
  • Journal of Chinese Linguistics: Index of Articles (1973- ).
  • Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Authors and Topics Indices (1966- ).
  • Journal of East Asian Linguistics: Table of Contents of Published Issues (1992- ).
  • Yuyan Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu [English title: Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] (No online indices -- Main (EAS): PL1004 .Y827)
  • Yuyan Yanjiu: Table of Contents Index (Eng./GB) (1981- ); (Main: PL1004 .Y84)
    
    Part of Wenze Hu and Hongyin Tao's Chinese Linguistics Page.

    Zhongguo Yuwen: Table of Contents Index (GB for now, Eng. under construction) (1995- ).

• MLA International Bibliography A database produced by Modern Language Association of America (MLA), it is available online for access to critical materials since 1963 on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore; proved access to citations from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.

• MLA Directory of Periodicals Detailed information on more than 7,100 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, with 4,400 currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks: ChinaLinks.osu.edu (Home Page with Table of Contents to 4 satellite pages and their contents)

• Marjorie Chan's Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries (links to online and downloadable Chinese word lists, frequency lists, dictionaries, etc.)

• Marjorie Chan's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography (bibliography, some web-accessible articles, online collections of gender-related course syllabi, etc.)

• Marjorie Chan's Online Bibliography for Chinese 580 (bibliography of English-language sources compiled in Spring 1999 for the undergraduate course, Chinese 580 (Chinese Language: Description and Analysis); updated periodically)

• Marjorie Chan's Modern Chinese Dialects Bibliography (bibliography of articles and references that were extracted from the Spring 2004 Chinese 785 course syllabus, and is updated from time to time)

• MC's Courses and Archived Course Syllabi
  (readings and references may provide a handy source to look for research topics or for supplementary reading.

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