Date	Day	Topics for Discussion and Assignments Due
January 6	Thursday	Language and Power: Getting Started First day of class Welcome and introductions Perspectives on Elephants Declaration of Independence
January 11	Tuesday	Course Information, Schedule of Assignments Crowley and Hawhee, Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, Chapter 1 Lakoff, "Language, Politics, and Power" Derrida, "Declarations of Independence" Exercise due: Ideologies and Commonplaces
January 13	Thursday	Discussions Continue Exercise due: Revisions, Remixes, Translations
January 14	Friday	Field Trip! DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation at the Power Center Meet at 7:30 p.m.
January 18	Tuesday	Terministic Screens Burke, "Terministic Screens" Postman and Powers, "The Bias of Language" Bohannan, "Shakespeare in the Bush"
January 20	Thursday	Discussions continue [All in the Family: "Gloria and the Riddle"] Exercise due: Descriptions
January 25	Tuesday	Words, Words, Words [Carlin, "They're Only Words" and "Euphemisms"] Steinem, "Words and Change" Dyer, "In a Word" Naylor, "The Meanings of a Word" (two versions) Fears, "Latinos or Hispanics?" Saunders, "New Hampshire Court Rules . . ."
January 27	Thursday	Discussions continue Exercise due: Words and Usage Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
February 1	Tuesday	Communities of Practice and Discourse Communities Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, "Communities of Practice" Bizzell, "What is a Discourse Community?" Fahnestock, "Accommodating Science"
February 3	Thursday	Discussions Continue Assignment due: First Paper
February 8	Tuesday	Rules, Rules, Rules Lexicography Semantic Change Description and Prescription Special Guest: Professor Anne Curzan
February 10	Thursday	Discussions continue Exercise due: Words and Their Definitions
February 15	Tuesday	Identification Lakoff, "We First" Heath, "Identification" (in Sloane, ed.) Jasinski, "Identification" Charland, "Constitutive Rhetoric" (in Sloane, ed.) Jasinski, "Constitutive Rhetoric" Kennedy, "To the American People on Civil Rights" Carmichael, "Black Power" (two texts, 1966 and 1967) Assignment due: Bring a magazine to class
February 17	Thursday	Discussions continue Exercise due: Identification and Advertising
February 22	Tuesday	Gender Nilsen, "Sexism in English: A 1990s Update" Miller and Swift, "Who's In Charge of the English Language?" Holmes, "Women Talk Too Much" [Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women]
February 24	Thursday	Discussions continue Mid-semester Evaluation of the Course Exercise due: Gender Constructions
March 1	Tuesday	No Class: Winter/Spring Break
March 3	Thursday	No Class: Winter/Spring Break
March 8	Tuesday	Catching Up, Review
March 10	Thursday	First Exam Speech Codes
March 15	Tuesday	Bilingualism Harlow, "Some Languages are Just Not Good Enough" Anzaldúa, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" Fusco, "Bilingualism, Biculturalism, and Borders" Rodriguez, "Public and Private Language" Hayakawa, "Bilingualism in America: English Should be the Only Language" Sommer, "Irritate the State"
March 17	Thursday	Discussions continue Exercise due: Bilingualism Position Statements
March 22	Tuesday	Dialects Curzan and Adams, "American Dialects" Preston, "They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City" Montgomery, "In the Appalachians They Speak Like Shakespeare" Fought, "Introduction" and "Syntax and Semantics of Chicano English"
March 24	Thursday	Discussions continue
March 29	Tuesday	Dialects, continued Bailey, "Standard English" (not yet available online) Jones, "What's Wrong with Black English" Jordan, "Nobody Mean More to Me than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan" Baldwin, "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" Rickford and Rickford, "What's Going On?" Smitherman, "English Teacher, Why You Be Doing the Thangs You Don't Do?" Special Guest: Professor Richard Bailey
March 31	Thursday	Discussions continue Exercise due: Second paper summary or outline
April 5	Tuesday	Writing Workshop Assignment due: four typed copies of the completed draft of your second paper
April 7	Thursday	Constructions of Categories and History ["Real Indian" Advertisement] [Off the Straight and Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Television] [various musical selections] Assignment due: Second Paper
April 12	Tuesday	Tompkins,"'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History" Dyer, "White" (excerpt) Baldwin, "On Being 'White' . . . And Other Lies" Fields, "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States"
April 14	Thursday	Discussions continue Wrap-up, Review, and Class Evaluations Assignment due: Category or History Constructions
April 19	Tuesday	Second Exam Speech Codes