LIN 610: English as a Global Language:

McCrum... Introduction

Chapter 1: An English Speaking World

Chapter 2: The Mother Tongue

Chapter 3: A Muse of Fire

Chapter 4: The Guid Scots Tongue

Chapter 5: The Loaded Weapon

Chapter 6: Black on White

Chapter 7: Pioneers! O Pioneers!

Chapter 8: Echoes of an English Voice

Chapter 9: Next Year's Words

ENG 312: English in Its Social Setting

BEFORE MIDSEMESTER EXAM:

Nilsen Vocabulary Plus: A Source-Based Approach

Chapter 1: Source-Based Approach

Chapter 2: Animal Metaphors

Chapter 3: Body Metaphors

Chapter 4: Communication Metaphors

Chapter 5: Plant & Food Metaphors

Chapter 6: Clothing Metaphors

Chapter 7: Living & Dying Metaphors

Chapter 8: Comparison & Contrast Metaphors

Chapter 9: Number Metaphors

AFTER MIDSEMESTER EXAM:

Eschholz... Language Awareness

# 1: V.A.R.I.E.S.: Language Variation

# 2: Visual Literacy

# 3: Urban Legends

# 4: Regional & Social Dialects

# 5: Usage

# 6: Rhetorical Devices vs. Errors

# 7: Obscenity: A User's Guide

# 8: Prose Styles

# 9: Gender Issues

# 10: Humor: Features, Functions, Subjects

# 11: American Popular Language

# 12: Business & Advertising Language

# 13: Ethnicity

# 14: Cultural Diversity

# 15: Names and Nyms