LIN 655: Humor across the Disciplines

# 1: Humor Theory

# 2: Humor & Psychology

# 3: Humor & Linguistics

# 4: Humor & Sociology

# 5: Humor & Anthropology

# 6: Humor & Philosophy and Religion

# 7: Humor & Literature

# 8: Humor & History

# 9: Humor & Computers

# 10: Humor & Discourse

# 11: Humor & Business

# 12: Humor & Health

# 13: Humor & Education

# 14: Stand Up Comedy

# 15: Bilingual Humor

# 16: Cartoon Humor

ENG 414: Linguistic Humor & Language Play

African-American Humor

Aging (Gerontology)

Ambiguity

Animal Play

Anthropology & Humor

Art & Humor

Bilingual Humor

Business Humor

Cartoon Humor

Clowns

Comics

Computer Humor

Education & Humor

Ethnic Humor

Gallows Humor

Gender Humor

Health & Humor

Hispanic Humor

History & Humor

Humor Theory

Indian Humor

Irish Humor

Irony

Jewish Humor

Jokes

Language Play

Literature & Humor

Movie Humor

Music & Humor

Paradox

Parody

Philosophy, Religion & Humor

Poetry & Humor

Political Humor

Psychology, Laughter & Humor

Religious Humor

Satire

Scottish Humor

Sociology & Humor

Stand-Up Comedy

Television Humor

LIN 516: Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis

# 1: Basic Linguistic Concepts

# 2: Semantics

# 3: Pragmatics

# 4: Figures of Speech

# 5: Conversational Implicatures

# 6: Speech Acts

# 7: Ambiguity

# 8: Discourse

# 9: Humor Theories

# 10: Cultural Diversity

# 11: Gender Issues

# 12: Prototype Theory

& Markedness Theory

# 13: V.A.R.I.E.S.

# 14: Regional & Social Dialects

# 15: Humor and Translation

# 16: Linguistic Humor

# 17: Archetypes

# 18: Rowling Schemes

# 19: Rowling Tropes

ENG 312: English in Its Social Setting

BEFORE MIDSEMESTER EXAM:

Research Paper Checklist

Pillsbury Doughboy

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: Eschholz-Rosa-Clark

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

# 3: History of English

# 4: Usage

# 5: Rhetorical Devices vs. Errors

# 6: Regional & Social Dialects

# 7: Obscenity: A User's Guide

# 8: Prose Styles

# 9: Gender Issues

# 10: Business & Advertising Language

# 11: Cultural Diversity

# 11B: Humor and Anthropology

# 12: Names and -Nyms

ENG 213: Introduction to the Study of Language

Introduction to the Course

Chapter 1: What is Language?

Chapter 2: The Brain & Lang

Chapter 3: Morphology

Chapter 4: Syntax

Chapter 5: Semantics

Chapter 6: Phonetics

Chapter 7A: Phonology

Chapter 7B: Spelling

Chapter 8: Lang Acquisition

Chapter 9: Computers

Chapter 10: Pragmatics

Chapter 11: Diachronics

Chapter 12: Writing

LIN 610: English as a Global Language

# 1: An English Speaking World

# 2: The Mother Tongue

# 3: The Muse of Fire

# 4: The Guid Scots Tongue

# 5: Irish English

# 6: Black English

# 7: Colonial English

# 8: Global English

# 9: The New Englishes

# 10: The Future of English

# 11: Foreign Words in English

Conference Presentations:

Animal Play

Archetypes

Cognates

Gaiman's Names

Names-Alleen

Names-Don

Nilsen Web Sites

Optical Illusions

Pillsbury Doughboy-Alleen

Political Cartoons

Spelling-Alleen

Spelling-Don

Urban Legends

Visual Literacy