LING 280 - The Language of Social Media with Dr. Maite Taboada

July 17, 2017
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LING 280 will answer all the questions you’ve ever asked yourself about language in social media:

• Why are people so nice on Facebook, so nasty on Twitter, and so braggy on Instagram?
• Are emojis a language?
• Why is it so hard to be sarcastic online, and so easy to be misunderstood?

A detailed course outline is available at sfu.ca/outlines

Mondays 12:30-14:20
Wednesdays 12:30-13:20

Fall 2017 LING Courses

Course Title
LING 100 D100 Communication and Language
LING 100 D200 Communication and Language
LING 111 D100 Introduction to English Vocabulary Analysis
LING 160 D100 Language, Culture and Society
LING 200 D100 Introduction to Sentence Analysis
LING 200 D900 Introduction to Sentence Analysis
LING 220 D100 Introduction to Linguistics
LING 221 D100 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
LING 222 D100 Introduction to Syntax
LING 280 D100 Interdisciplinary Topics in Linguistics (The Language of Social Media)
LING 290 D100 The Science of Speech
LING 301W D100 Linguistic Argumentation
LING 321 D100 Phonology
LING 322 D100 Syntax
LING 350 D100 First Language Acquisition
LING 360 D100 Introduction to Applied Linguistics
LING 362 D100 Introduction to Teaching English as a Second Language to Adults
LING 370 D100 Linguistics Practicum I
LING 370 D200 Linguistics Practicum I
LING 370 I100 Linguistics Practicum I
LING 371 D100 Linguistics Practicum II
LING 371 D200 Linguistics Practicum II
LING 371 I100 Linguistics Practicum II
LING 400 D100 Formal Linguistics
LING 470 D100 Linguistics Practicum III
LING 470 D200 Linguistics Practicum III
LING 470 I100 Linguistics Practicum III
LING 471 D100 Linguistics Practicum IV
LING 471 D200 Linguistics Practicum IV
LING 471 I100 Linguistics Practicum IV
LING 491 D100 Directed Research