Syllabus:

Faculty Course: Language Myths, 7.5 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-05-08

Swedish name: Profilkurs: Språkmyter

This syllabus is valid: 2018-03-19 and until further notice

Course code: 1LI070

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: Second cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: No main field: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Language Studies

Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2018-03-09

Required Knowledge

Univ: At least 150 ECTS
Knowledge of English equivalent of English 6/English Course B from Swedish upper secondary school

Literature

Valid from: 2018 week 12

Language myths
Bauer Laurie, Trudgill Peter
London : Penguin : 1998 : xviii, 188 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-026023-4
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Evans Vyvyan.
The language myth : why language is not an instinct
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 2014. : xi, 304 pages :
ISBN: 978-1-107-04396-1
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Kaplan Abby
Women talk more than men...and other myths about language explained
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 2016 : 293 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-107-08492-6
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Parkvall Mikael
Lagom finns bara i Sverige : och andra myter om språk
3. tr. : Stockholm : Stevali fakta : 2016 : 173 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-85701-45-2
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Wardhaugh Ronald
Proper English : myths and misunderstandings about language
Malden, MA : Blackwell : 1999 : 197 s. :
ISBN: 0-631-21268-X
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Watts Richard J.
Language Myths and the History of English
New York : Oxford University Press : 2011 : PDF (338 p.) :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
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