Re-scheduling of the class

Language & Society 2013-2014

room 14, 6-8pm

October

Tuesday 1 Unit 1 - Introduction to the course

Thursday 3 Unit 2 - Two models for communication

Tuesday 8 Unit 3 – Temporal organization of the activities

Thursday 10 Unit 4 - The constitution of the perceptual world

Tuesday 15 Unit 5 - Group

Thursday 17 Unit 6 - Self

Tuesday 22 Unit 7 – Frame Analysis

Thursday 24 Unit 8 – Interaction order

Tuesday 29 Unit 9 – Ritual and symbolism

Thursday 31 Unit 10 – Institutional order

November

Tuesday 5 Unit 11 – Action, activities, intentionality

Thursday 7 NO CLASS

MONDAY 11 – PROJECT WORK

Tuesday 12 Unit 12 - Emotions

Thursday 14 Unit 13 - Senses

MONDAY 18 – PROJECT WORK

Tuesday 19 Unit 14 – Animals

Thursday 21 Unit 15 – Filogenesis, ontogenesis

Monday 25 – Unit 16 - Meaning and interpretations

Tuesday 26 Unit 17 – Linguistics and sociolinguistics

Thursday 28 NO CLASS

December

MONDAY 2 – PROJECT WORK

Tuesday 3 Unit 18 - Ethnomethodology

Thursday 5 Unit 19 – Conversation Analysis

MONDAY 9 – PROJECT WORK

Tuesday 10 Unit 20 – Wrap up

Thursday 12 NO CLASS - Universiadi

Tuesday 17 NO CLASS

Thursday 19 NO CLASS – Universiadi

Unit 16 - November 25th

16 Meaning and interpretation

G.H. Mead, Mind, Self and Society. Chicago: Chicago University Press chap. 8, 9, 10, 11

http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Mead/pubs2/mindself/Mead_1934_toc.html

In ITALIAN:
http://www.ibs.it/code/9788809745605/mead-george-h/mente-s-e-e-societ-a.html
Check the University Library System:
http://www.cbt.biblioteche.provincia.tn.it/oseegenius/resource?uri=589612&v=l&dcnr=3

B. Malinowski, The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages

pp.296-336

http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/pdfs/ogden-richards-meaning-all.pdf

C. Geertz, Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture, pp. 3-32

http://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Geertz_Clifford_The_Interpretation_of_Cultures_Selected_Essays.pdf
In ITALIAN see:
http://www.ibs.it/code/9788815066930/geertz-clifford/interpretazione-culture.html

Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method. Trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall. London: Sheed and Ward, 1975. Rev. Ed. London: Continuum, 1989. EXCERPTS:

http://www.rlwclarke.net/courses/LITS3303/2008-2009/11CGadamerTruthandMethod.pdf

http://www.ualberta.ca/~caaftink/Gadamer.pdf

In ITALIAN see:

http://www.ibs.it/code/9788845248559/gadamer-hans-g/verit-a-e-metodo-vol.html

Unit 13 - November 14th

13 Senses

Simmel, Excursus on the sociology of the senses, in Sociology (or. ed. 1908)

In GERMAN:

http://socio.ch/sim/soziologie/soz_9_ex2.htm

In ENGLISH
In ITALIAN

Gale Peter Largey and David Rodney Watson The Sociology of Odors, American Journal of Sociology , Vol. 77, No. 6 (May, 1972), pp. 1021-1034
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2776218

Rotter 2011 Empires of the Senses - How Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching Shaped Imperial Encounters

http://dh.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/1/3.short

Unit 12 - November 12th

12 Emotions

M. Mauss, “L'expression obligatoire des sentiments (rituels oraux funéraires australiens”. (1921)
http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/mauss_marcel/essais_de_socio/T3_expression_sentiments/expression_sentiments.html
The ENGLISH translation (with an introduction by C. Garces and A. Jones, 2009)
http://anthropology.cornell.edu/faculty/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&PageID=139765
The ITALIAN translation:
http://www.adelphi.it/libro/9788845902475

Erving Goffman Response Cries, Language , Vol. 54, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 787-815
http://www.jstor.org/stable/413235
The ITALIAN translation is in this book (chap. 2):
http://www.mulino.it/edizioni/volumi/scheda_volume.php?vista=scheda&ISBNART=01552

Arlie Russell Hochschild, 1979. "Emotion Work, Feeling Rules and Social Structure." American Journal of Sociology 85, 3: 551-575.
https://campus.fsu.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/academic/social_sciences/sociology/Reading%20Lists/Social%20Psych%20Prelim%20Readings/II.%20Emotions/1979%20Hochschild%20-%20Emotion%20Work.pdf

Arnold Arluke. “Managing Emotions in an Animal Shelter.” Inside Social Life, pp. 337-351
oppure

Spencer E. Cahill and Robin Eggleston, Managing Emotions in Public: The Case of Wheelchair Users, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 300-312
http://renazito.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/cahill-and-eggleston-1994-managing-emotions-in-public.pdf

Unit 11 - November 5th

11 Action, activities and intentionality

1. Hubert DREYFUS and Jerome WAKEFIELD, "Intentionality and the Phenomenology of Action", John Searle and his Critics, E. Lepore & R. Van Guhck, edts., (Cambridge, UK : Basil Blackwell, 1991), 264

2. John R. SEARLE, "Response : The Background of Intentionality and Action," in John Searle and his Critics, E. Lepore & R. Van Guhck, edts , (Cambridge, UK : Basil Blackwell, 1991)

3. Hubert L Dreyfus, "Heidegger's Critique of the Husserl/Searle Account of Intentionality," Social Research Vol. 60, No. 1, (Spring 1993).

4. John Searle, “The Limits of Phenomenology”, Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume Two, MIT Press, 2000.

5. Hubert L. Dreyfus, “Phenomenological Description versus Rational Reconstruction”, La Revue Internationale de Philosophie, l999

6. John Searle, “Neither Phenomenological Description nor Rational Reconstruction”, La Revue Internationale de Philosophie l999

7. Hubert L. Dreyfus, “The Primacy of Phenomenology over Logical Analysis”, 1999

8. Hubert Dreyfus, ‘The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Embodiment’, Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy (1996),

The two contenders:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Dreyfus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle

Unit 10 - October 31st

10 Institutional order

J.L. Austin, Ho to do things with words
http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/~davis/crs/rhe321/Austin-How-To-Do-Things.pdf

Who is Austin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._L._Austin
http://www.iep.utm.edu/austin/

John Searle, What is a speech act
Download pdf

Who is Searle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle

Pierre Bourdieu, The social conditions for the effectiveness of ritual discourse (1975)

On Speech Act Theory you must consult:
Marina Sbisà, Speech acts in context (2002)
Marina Sbisà, Speech acts theory (2006)
Marina Sbisà, How to read Austin (2007)

Other interesting articles by Marina Sbisà in ITALIAN:
J.L. Austin e la teoria degli atti linguistici (ppt presentation)
Atto/Act

Marina Sbisà's home page:
http://www2.units.it/sbisama/it/?file=scritti.htm

Unit 9 - October 29th

9 Ritual and symbolism

E. Durkheim, Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse, 1912
http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/Durkheim_emile/formes_vie_religieuse/formes_vie_religieuse.html
ENGLISH translation (1995):
http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/DurkheimReligiousLife.pdf
ITALIAN translation, please check in the University Library:
http://www.cbt.trentinocultura.net/LVbin//LibriVision/lv_view_records.html
(I suggest the new translation by Massimo Rosati, 2005)

BOOK II, Chapter 7: "Origins of these beliefs (Conclusion): Origin of the notion of totemic principle, or mana" (p. 207-241)
BOOK III, Chapter III: "The positive cult (Continuation): Mimetic rites and the principle of causality" (p. 355-373)

Schutz A. "Symbols, reality and society", in Symbols and Society, L. Bryson, L. Finkelstein, H. Hoagland e R. McIver (eds.), New York, Harper, 1955, pp. 135-204 (then in A. Schutz, Collected Papers, Den Haag : Nijhoff, 1962-1966).

Symbol

Etymology

Etimologia