2. Study Linguistics at the U of S! Learn a new language, find out about the human language, choose an exciting career!

3. Studying the Human Language  What is Language? What is Language?  Do animals have language too?  We can do things with language that animals cannot do in their means of communication.  Or do you know many dogs who will have a conversation about what they had for lunch last Monday?

4.  As a linguist, you have the skills, tools, and training to create languages: DothrakiDothraki  To preserve and document languages: The LinguistsThe Linguists  We will have a public screening of The Linguists at the U of S, October 27, 7 pm, Arts Building, Neatby Timlin Theatre, Arts 241 Inventing new and documenting existing languages

5. Language is what makes us human  As human beings, we are born with the ability to acquire any language.  When there isn’t one, we are able to create one  Nicaraguan Sign Language was created by deaf children in a school for the deaf.  Instead of learning an existing sign language, they created their own, which is now the official sign language of Nicaragua.

6. http://usielhumanbrain.blogspot.ca/2013/ 05/cerebral-hemispheres.htmlhttp://usielhumanbrain.blogspot.ca/2013/ 05/cerebral-hemispheres.html. September 2015 Language is connected to cognition

7. Left hemisphere dominance for language  There is considerable variation as to how strong that dominance is.  There is a tendency for women and left-handers to be more bilateral. No one knows why that is.  Let’s see how strong your left hemisphere is:hemisphere

8. Language creates identity  -Local terms identify us: bunnyhug -Different accents identify us: Canadian raising: -Knife vs. knives -Eh? -The Canadian Language Museum has exhibits on Inuktitut, Cree, English, French and a lively twitter discussing languages in CanadaThe Canadian Language Museum

9. What will you learn in the Linguistics Program? Write and describe sounds

10. Learn how we produce sounds  Sound Production Sound Production

11. See what the sounds look like!

12. How words are formed  Fun with New Words:  We create new words all the time:  Can you guess the meaning of the following made-up words?  Trilemma?  Huggle?  Outrance?  Prefixes Rap Prefixes Rap

13. How language changes  The history of English in 10 minutes The history of English in 10 minutes

14. How sentences are formed and what happens in our brains when something goes goofy: Garden Path Sentences  The prime number few.  Fat people eat accumulates.  The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississippi.  Until the police arrest the drug dealers control the street.  The man who hunts ducks out on weekends.

15. Modern Linguistics is the SCIENTIFIC STUDY of Language  It is interdisciplinary and intersects with many fields:  Sociology: when gender or class influences language use  Neuroscience: what our brains do when processing language  Speech Language Pathology: How we can help when language is impaired  Psychology: How our minds are affected by language  Computer Science: language recognition in computers (Apple’s Siri and Windows 10’s Cortana), online dictionaries, search engines  Teaching: Teaching languages in Canada and worldwide  History/Archeology/Anthropology: how people’s migrations influence language contact and language change  Mathematics: use formal language to determine meaning  Philosophy: what it means to be human  And many more…..

16.  Speech and Language Pathology Speech and Language Pathology  Education, language teaching, language testing: Teaching English Abroad: 20,000 ESL Jobs Posted Monthly. We even have internships at the UofS to get your started  Editing  Translation  Acting, accent coaching  Forensic Linguistics Forensic Linguistics  Language Documentation, Preservation, and Development: Navajo Language Academy Navajo Language Academy  Language Creation  Online dictionaries, speech recognition, search algorithms (Software and game companies are hiring linguists too) What careers are possible?

17. Where to start?  Ling 111 Language Structures (Term 1)  Learn about the components of language structure – sounds, words, sentences, meaning  Ling 112 Language Dynamics (Term 2)  Learn about language history, social functions of language, first and second language acquisition, animal communication  Linguistics 3yr, 4yr, Honours BA  Linguistics component in the ‘Modern Languages’ Degree (6 cu Ling (+12?)): Learn a new language such as Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Cree, ……………

18. Natalia Terekhova: Heritage Language Maintenance among Children Advantages:  Smarter  Better opportunities  Easier learning  Intergeneration communication  Contry’s strength Findings:  Better language performance  Children want to know both languages www.zazzle.cabilingual_russian_shirts-235371856528690910 Going further: Masters Degree in Linguistics

19. Gholamreza Haghighat: Attitudes about Ta’arof among Iranian Immigrants in Canada  Ta'arof is a way of being polite that is specific to Iranian culture.  Did you ever invite someone to your house, when you really don’t want them to come, but you almost feel like you have to invite them?  Did you ever proceed to pay at a grocery store, even though the cashier said something to the effect of “no go ahead, it’s a gift?”  Did you ever go to someone’s house and you are sitting at the dinner table, and the host offers you more food, even though your dinner plate was full?  Did you ever offer to pay for your own meal when eating with older relatives, even though you more or less knew they would get it for you?   That’s Ta’arof