English Across the World – syllabus 2022/2023
Course title: English Across the World
Instructor: Prof. dr. Višnja Josipović Smojver (visnja.josipovic@ffzg.unizg.hr)
Semester: III (winter)
Status: elective (4 hours)
ECTS credits: 5
Language: English

Type of Classes: lectures

Course requirements: No special requirements

Exam: written (3 essay questions)

Course description: The course describes the variability of the English language in its standard and non-standard forms. It deals with the history of the spread of English to continents outside Europe, covering topics such as prestige vs. stigmatized varieties, common processes in spoken English, as well as the differences among individual varieties. It also deals with the use of English as a second language, English as a lingua franca in the context of globalisation, and the language of the Internet.

Objectives: Getting acquainted with the linguistic variability of English in the context of contemporary globalisation trends, as well as developing the skills of recognising and linguistically describing its geographical and socio-linguistic varieties.

Week-by-week-schedule of topics:

1. Introduction: English as a global language
2. The history of English as a global languages: diasporas and milestones
3. Standards and standardisation
4. The Standards of the Inner Circle
5. Variability of English within the British Isles
6. The linguistic south of England
7. The linguistic north of England
8. The Keltic varieties of English (I): Introduction; Welsh English
9. The Keltic varieties of English (II): Scottish and Irish English
10. Australian English
11. English in Aftrica
12. Asian English (I): Introduction and classification; English in South Asia: Indian English
13. Asian English (II): English in South East Asia and the newly emerging varieties
14. English as a lingua franca
15. Optional topics: Netspeak; some lesser known varieties of English (students’ presentations)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Obligatory literature:

Hughes, A., P. Trudgill & D. Watt (2012), English Accents and Dialects. 5th edn. Routledge.

Kirkpatrick, A. (2007). World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (+CD: World Englishes. Cambridge University Press).

Trudgill, P. & J. Hannah (2017), International English: A Guide to Varieties of Standard English. 6th ed. Routledge (+ audio materials)

Additional literature:

Britain, D., ed.  (2007), Language in the British Isles. CUP.

Crystal, D. (2006), Language and the Internet. 2nd ed. CUP.

Jenkins, J. (2003). World Englishes: A resource book for students. London – New York: Routledge.

Kirkpatrick, A., ed. (2010). The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. London-New York: Routledge.

Kortman, B., C. Upton, W. Schneider, K. Burridge, R. Mesthrie, eds. (2008), Varieties of English, Vol.s 1-4. Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (+Interactive CD-ROM: Kortmann, B and E.W. Schneider, eds., Varieties of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). = reference literature

Lindsey, G. (2019). English after RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today. www.cubedictionary.org.

Mesthrie, R. & R.M. Bhatt (2008), World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties. CUP.

Metcalf, A. (2000), How we Talk: American Regional English Today (a talking tour of American English, region by region). Boston – New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Trudgill, P. & J. K. Chambers, eds. (1991), Dialects of English: Studies in Grammatical Variation. London  Longman.

Wolfram, W. & N. Schilling – Estes (2006), American English. 2nd ed. Blackwell. 

English Across the World – syllabus 2024/2025
Course title: English Across the World
Instructor: Prof. dr. Višnja Josipović Smojver (visnja.josipovic@ffzg.unizg.hr)
Semester: III (winter)
Status: elective (4 hours)
ECTS credits: 5
Language: English

Type of Classes: lectures

Course requirements: No special requirements

Exam: written (3 essay questions)

Course description: The course describes the variability of the English language in its standard and non-standard forms. It deals with the history of the spread of English to continents outside Europe, covering topics such as prestige vs. stigmatized varieties, common processes in spoken English, as well as the differences among individual varieties. It also deals with the use of English as a second language, English as a lingua franca in the context of globalisation, and the language of the Internet.

Objectives: Getting acquainted with the linguistic variability of English in the context of contemporary globalisation trends, as well as developing the skills of recognising and linguistically describing its geographical and socio-linguistic varieties.

Week-by-week-schedule of topics:

1. Introduction: English as a global language
2. The history of English as a global languages: diasporas and milestones
3. Standards and standardisation
4. The Standards of the Inner Circle
5. Variability of English within the British Isles
6. The linguistic south of England
7. The linguistic north of England
8. The Keltic varieties of English (I): Introduction; Welsh English
9. The Keltic varieties of English (II): Scottish and Irish English
10. Australian English
11. English in Aftrica
12. Asian English (I): Introduction and classification; English in South Asia: Indian English
13. Asian English (II): English in South East Asia and the newly emerging varieties
14. English as a lingua franca
15. Optional topics: Netspeak; some lesser known varieties of English (students’ presentations)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Obligatory literature:

Collins, B.,  I. Mees and P. Carley (2019). Practical English Phonetics and Phonology. 4th ed. Rutledge. Taylor & Francis Group. Section C: Exploration = audio source; link available on the Omega.

Hughes, A., P. Trudgill & D. Watt (2012), English Accents and Dialects. 5th edn. Routledge.

Kirkpatrick, A., ed. (2010). The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. London-New York: Routledge.

Trudgill, P. & J. Hannah (2017), International English: A Guide to Varieties of Standard English. 6th ed. Routledge (+ audio materials)

Additional literature:

Britain, D., ed.  (2007), Language in the British Isles. CUP.

Jenkins, J. (2003). World Englishes: A resource book for students. London – New York: Routledge.

Kortman, B., C. Upton, W. Schneider, K. Burridge, R. Mesthrie, eds. (2008), Varieties of English, Vol.s 1-4. Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (+Interactive CD-ROM: Kortmann, B and E.W. Schneider, eds., Varieties of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). = reference literature

Lindsey, G. (2019). English after RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today. www.cubedictionary.org.

Mesthrie, R. & R.M. Bhatt (2008), World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties. CUP.

Metcalf, A. (2000), How we Talk: American Regional English Today (a talking tour of American English, region by region). Boston – New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Trudgill, P. & J. K. Chambers, eds. (1991), Dialects of English: Studies in Grammatical Variation. London  Longman.

Wolfram, W. & N. Schilling – Estes (2006), American English. 2nd ed. Blackwell. 

Course title: Syntactic Theories
Course coordinator: Professor Irena Zovko Dinković
Instructor: Professor Irena Zovko Dinković
Status: elective
ECTS credits: 6
Semester: 1st or 3rd (winter)
Enrollment requirements: –

Objectives: To introduce the students to major syntactic theories and approaches from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, and teach them about various ways of syntactic analysis and representation, as well as claims and hypotheses on the structure of language in general. This will provide them with the opportunity to apply the acquired theoretical background to their own research and connect it on a broader level with other sciences.

Week by week schedule:

Week	Topic
1.	Introduction to the history of 20th century syntactic theories.
2.	From Bloomfield to Chomsky. Early generative theories.
3.	Chomsky’s Transformational Grammar. Standard Theory and Extended Standard Theory.
4.	Generative Semantics. Optimality theories: Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar.
5.	Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Lexical Functional Grammar.
6.	Government and Binding Theory and X’- theory. Minimalist Program.
7.	Relational Grammar. Dependency Grammars.
8.	Functional approaches to language analysis. The Prague Linguistic Circle.
9.	Martinet’s Functional Syntax.
10.	S. Dik’s Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar.
11.	Systemic Functional Grammar.
12.	Role and Reference Grammar. Emergent Grammar.
13.	Cognitive Grammar.
14.	Construction Grammar.
15.	Final review and preparation for the exam.

Course description:
After each unit, the students solve a specific task in the seminar, which they check with the instructor. They are also expected to read at home the relevant parts of obligatory reading and other materials.

Course requirements:
Students should attend the classes regularly and actively participate in class and in solving the assignments. The last week of the course is dedicated to preparing students for the exam. The exam is written.

Obligatory reading (selected chapters and pages):
Brown, Keith & Miller, J. (ur.) (1996). Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories. Oxford – New York: Pergamon

Moravcsik, Edith (2006). An Introduction to Syntactic Theory. New York: Continuum

Newmeyer, Frederick (1986). Linguistic Theory in America (2. izd.). Orlando: Academic Press, Inc.

Matthews, Peter H. (1993). Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Sag, Ivan, Wasow, Thomas & Bender, Emily (2003). Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction (2. izdanje). Chicago: CSLI Publications

 

 

Suggested reading:
Chomsky, Noam (1957). Syntactic Structures. Gravenhage: Mouton

Graffi, Giorgio (2001). 200 Years of Syntax: A Critical Survey. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins

Müller, Stefan (2016). Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches. Berlin: Language Science Press

Poole, Geoffrey (2011). Syntactic Theory (2. izd.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Sells, Peter (1985). Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories. Chicago: CSLI Publications

Pollock, Jean-Yves (1989). Verb Movement, Universal Grammar, and the Structure of IP. Linguistic Inquiry 20: 365-424

Nichols, Johanna (1984). Functional Theories of Grammar. Annual Review of Anthropology 13: 97–117.

Newmeyer, Frederick. (2001). The Prague School and North American functionalist approaches to syntax. Journal of Linguistics 37: 101 – 126

Dik, Simon C. (1991). Functional Grammar. U: F. Droste i J. Joseph (ur.), Linguistic theory and grammatical description. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

Hengeveld, Kees & Mackenzie, J. Lachlan (2010), Functional Discourse Grammar. U: Bernd Heine i Heiko Narrog (ur.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 367-400.

Halliday, M. A. K. (1984). A Short Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Arnold

Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. & Randy LaPolla (1997). Syntax: Structure, meaning and function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Langacker, Ronald W. (2008). Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Goldberg, Adele. (1995) Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Course title: Sociolinguistics
Course coordinator: Dr. Anđel Starčević, Assistant Professor
Instructor: Dr. Anđel Starčević, Assistant Professor
ECTS credits : 5
Language: English
Semester: 3rd (winter) (linguistics program)
Form of instruction: 2 lectures + 2 seminars
Enrollment requirements: enrollment in the third semester
Exam: written

Course description: The course conceptualizes language as a process and a frame for various realizations or varieties, such as standard and non-standard dialects, sociolects, styles and jargons. It deals with describing and interpreting their functions in specific communities, as well as with the explicit and implicit metapragmatic levels of various language ideologies, which are an integral component of language use, often with important social consequences. The course is taught through lectures and seminar discussions, with an emphasis on individual work. For their weekly seminar work, students need to pre-read the assigned texts and be prepared to critically discuss them. During the semester, each student will (1) present one seminar topic based on one of the assigned texts and formulate questions for discussion with the class, as well as (2) carry out, write up and (in the second half of the semester) present their own research project in the form of a research paper. The research paper includes carrying out one sociolinguistic interview, transcribing the material, and analyzing the data with references to relevant literature. The final grade in the course is a combination of the results of a written final exam (60%) and the research paper (40%).      
Course objectives: Enabling students to understand the link between linguistic and extralinguistic phenomena, the interplay between the communicative and symbolic levels of language, and the role of language in creating ideological views. Developing the ability to critically consider prevalent ideas on language and language variability. Developing methodological and analytical skills for autonomous sociolinguistic research.

Week-by-week schedule:

1. Sociolinguistics as a branch of linguistics. Language, dialect, accent, variety.
2. Field methods. The sociolinguistic interview.
3. Language ideologies and Critical Discourse Analysis 1.
4. Language ideologies and Critical Discourse Analysis 2.
5. Language and identity. Speech communities.
6. Language and social class. Language and ethnicity.
7. Bilingualism and code-switching.
8. REVISION 1.
9. Language, gender, and sexuality.
10. Language and style. Language attitudes.
11. Language policy and language planning.
12. Sociolinguistics and second language acquisition.
13. Linguistic landscapes. Language death.
14. Research project presentations.
15. REVISION 2.

Required reading:
Trudgill, Peter (2000) Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society. (4th edition). London/New York: Penguin. (selected chapters)
Llamas Carmen, Mullany Louise and Peter Stockwell (eds) (2007) The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. London/New York: Routledge. (selected chapters)
Suggested reading:
Hudson, Richard (1996) Sociolinguistics. (2nd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Romaine, Suzanne (2007) Language and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stockwell, Peter (2007) Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students. (2nd edition). London/New York: Routledge.
Wardhaugh, Ronald and Janet M. Fuller (2015) Introduction to Sociolinguistics. (7th edition). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

Name of course: Historical sociolinguistics
Instructor: Dr. Alexander D. Hoyt, senior lector (lecturer in foreign languages)
ECTS points: 5
Language of instruction: English
Classroom hours weekly: lecture: 1 seminar: 2
Semester: Winter
Status: elective course
Maximum enrolment: 20 students

Course description: The goals of this course are twofold. The first goal is to introduce students to the field of historical sociolinguistics, in which scholars studying the history of individual languages combine the methods of historical linguistics with those of sociolinguistics (especially variationist, or “Labovian”, sociolinguistics) in an attempt to reconstruct processes of language change in their social context. Research in this field tends to focus on texts that most closely represent spoken language (e.g., personal letters, theatrical plays, and court testimony transcriptions). The majority of historical sociolinguistic research has been done on Early Modern English, the largest project by far being the Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC), a Finnish project headed by Terttu Nevalainen. Most other research in the field has been done on northern European languages such as Swedish, German, Dutch, and French. The second goal is to give students some “hands-on” experience. They will be shown how a completed digital corpus (e.g., the CEEC) can be used for basic research. In addition, students will participate in the construction of a sociolinguistic corpus by transcribing and analyzing personal letters written (or received) in Croatia in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Although the primary focus of this project is linguistic, students specializing in other fields, such as history, sociology, communications, and political science, should also find the course interesting from the socio-historical point of view, because the letters studied will give them insight into the everyday problems and experiences of people living in Croatia a century ago.
Grading method: The final grade is based on continuous assessment, which includes regular attendance, preparation for and participation in class, and timely submission of both an informal group report (2-4 students) and an individual term paper. the paper is worth 40% of the final grade; the group report, 30%; and other elements of continuous assessment, 30%. Students must fulfill all elements of continuous assessment in order to pass the course.
Course units:
12.10.15 Introduction to the course.
19.10.15 What is historical sociolinguistics? Origins of the field.
26.10.15 Source Types Used in Historical Sociolinguistic Inquiry
2.11.15 Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC)
9.11.15 Letters as Loot Corpus (Dutch sailing letters)
16.11.15 Social History and Language Change.
30.11.15 Language and Dialect. English, Croatian, other examples
7.12.15 Standardization. Two examples: English and Croatian
14.12.15 Different Ways of Looking at Language Change
21.12.15 The Uniformitarian Principle
11.1.16 Linguistic and Social Variables
18.1.16 Social Networks
25.1.16 Conclusion
Required reading:
– Hernandez Campoy, Juan M. & J. Camilo Conde Silvestre (eds.). 2012. The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.
Secondary reading:
– Barton, David & Hall, Nigel (eds.). 1999. Letter writing as a social practice (Studies in Written Language and Literacy 9). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
– Brozović, Dalibor i Pavle Ivić (1988), Jezik, srpskohrvatski/hrvatskosrpski, hrvatski ili srpski. Zagreb: Jugoslavenski i leksikografski zavod “Miroslav Krleža”.
– Lass, Roger. 1997. Historical linguistics and language change. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 81). Cambridge: C.U.P.
– Milan Moguš. 1995. A History of the Croatian Language: Toward a Common Standard. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus. Translated by Alexander D. Hoyt & Lelija Sočanac.
– Nevalainen, Terttu & Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena (eds.). 1996. Sociolinguistics and language history: Studies based on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 15). Amsterdam – Atlanta, GA: Rodopi.
– Nevalainen, Terttu & Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena. 2003. Historical sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Pearson Education.
– Nevalainen, Terttu & Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa (eds.). Letter writing (Benjamins Current Topics 1). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [previously published in the Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 5:2 (2004)]
– Romaine, Suzanne. 1982. Socio-historical linguistics: Its status and methodology (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 34). Cambridge: C.U.P.

 

Course Title: Sociolinguistics
Instructor: dr.sc. Damir Kalogjera, prof. emeritus
ECTS-points : 5
Language: English
Semester: IX(winter)
Status: elective
Form of Instruction: 4 lecture per week
Examination: written

Course title:  Psycholinguistics
Lecturer:  Professor Irena Zovko Dinković
ECTS credits:  5
Language:  English
Semester:  3rd (winter) term of graduate studies
Status: elective
Course form:  4 hours of lecture per week
Enrollment requirements:   –
Exam:  written
Objectives:  introduce the students to the basic concepts of the area of study, namely the acquisition, perception and comprehension of language, in order to explore the relationship between language, thought and culture.

Week by week schedule:

 

Week	Topic
1.	General information about the course. Introduction to the key concepts of psycholinguistics. Language and communication: is language specific to humans?
2.	Animal communication and human communication. Feral children and the critical age issue.
3.	The cognitive basis of language: how children learn language. The nature vs. nurture debate
4.	Early semantic and syntactic development. Bilingualism and second language learning.
5.	The biological basis of language: language and the brain.
6.	Language disorders: aphasias and dyslexias. Other language-related disorders. Sign language.
7.	REVISION
8.	The structure of sentences. Word meaning. Comprehension.
9.	The structure and content of the ‘mental lexicon’: how humans learn and store words, how they find the right word and understand the words of others. Lexical retrieval.
10.	Language and memory: long-term memory and short-term (working) memory.
11.	Language processing: bottom-up and top-down processing; serial and parallel processing. Perceptual and conceptual information. The role of context.
12.	Productive language skills: writing and speaking.
13.	Receptive language skills: reading and listening. The whole-word approach vs. the decoding approach.
14.	The social basis of language: the relationship between language, thought and culture.
15.	FINAL REVISION and COURSE ASSESSMENT. PREPARATION FOR THE EXAM.

Course description:
The course covers the key topics organized in weekly units. After most units the students do exercises which they check in class with the lecturer. The students are also expected to read at home relevant chapters from the obligatory readings and are advised to read selected parts from additional literature, which further help them to acquire better insight into the subject matter.

Course requirements:
The students are advised to attend the course regularly and are encouraged to actively participate in class. There is one review at mid-semester and a final review during the last week of the course. At the end of the course the students take a written exam.

Obligatory reading:
– Field, John (2003) Psycholinguistics, London and New York: Routledge
– Harley, Trevor (2001) The Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory, Hove and New York: Psychology Press Ltd.
– Steinberg, Danny, Hiroshi Nagata and David Aline (2001, 2^nd ed.) Psycholinguistics: Language, Mind and World, Harlow: Longman

Suggested reading:
– Aitchison, Jean (1998, 4^th ed.) The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics London and New York: Routledge
– Aitchison, Jean (2003) Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, Oxford: Blackwell
– Anderson, Stephen and David Lightfoot(2002) The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (selected chapters)
– Burling, Robbins (2005) The Talking Ape: How language evolved, Oxford: Oxford University Press
– Field, John (2005) Language and the Mind, London and New York: Routledge
– Pinker, Steven (2007) The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, New York: Viking

 

 

Course title: English Across the World
Instructor: Prof. dr. Višnja Josipović Smojver
ECTS credits: 5
Language: English
Status: elective (4 hours)
Semester: III (winter)
Exam: written
Course requirements: No special requirements
Course description:
The course describes the contemporary varieties of English, including the newly emerged standard Englishes and major substandard ones. It deals with the spreading of English outside Europe and covers topics such as prestige vs. stigmatized varieties, recent trends in spoken English, lexical variation in the Englishes of the world, English-based creoles, English as a second language, Internet English, and English as a Lingua Franca.

Objectives:
Getting acquainted with the linguistic variation  resulting from the globalization of English and learning to describe it scientifically.

Obligatory literature:

• Jenkins, J. (2003), World Englishes: A resource book for students. Routledge.

• Kirkpatrick, A. (2007), World Englishes. CUP.

• Kortman, B., C. Upton, W. Schneider, K. Burridge, R. Mesthrie, eds. (2008), Varieties of English, Vol.s 1-4. Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (= reference)

 Further reading:

• Britain, D., ed.  (2007), Language in the British Isles. CUP.  
• Crystal, D. (2006), Language and the Internet. 2nd ed. CUP.
• Crystal, D. (2011), Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide. Routledge.  
• Cogo, A. & M.Dewey (2012), Analysing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-driven investigation. London-New York: Continuum.
• Hughes, A., P. Trudgill & D. Watt (2005), English Accents and Dialects. 4th edn. Edward Arnold.
• Mesthrie, R. & R.M. Bhatt (2008), World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties. CUP.
• Metcalf, A. (2000), How we Talk: American Regional English Today (a talking tour of American English, region by region). Boston – New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Nagle, S.J. & S.L. Sanders (2003), English in the Southern United States. CUP.
• Seidlhofer, B. (2011), Understanding English as a Lingua Franca. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Trudgill, P., ed. (1984), Language in the British Isles. CUP.
• Trudgill, P. & J. K. Chambers, eds. (1991), Dialects of English: Studies in Grammatical Variation. London  Longman.
• Trudgill, P. & J. Hannah (1985), International English: A Guide to Varieties of Standard English. 2nd ed. Edward Arnold.
• Wolfram, W. & N. Schilling – Estes (2006), American English. 2nd ed. Blackwell. 

 www.abdn.ac.uk/langling/resources

 journals: English World Wide
               World Englishes
               English Today
               Journal of English as a Lingua Franca

Week by week schedule:

1. Introduction; English as a global language
2.  the Inner-Outer-Expanding Circles (Kirkpatrick); new Englishes vs. New Englishes
3. Standard, standardization, multilingualism
4. British English vs. North American English vs. Australian English
5. English in the British Isles: standard and non-standard variation
6. Irish English  – Welsh English – Scottish English
7. English in Africa
8. Asian English: introduction, classification
9. South Asian English
10. SE Asian and Pacific English
11. English in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines
12. Emerging Englises: English in Hong Kong and China
13. Netglish
14. Non-native Englishes
15. English as a Lingua Franca

 

          

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