The final report from Night School on Anarres, A King’s College London/Somerset House installation on Utopia, July-September 2016

TEACHING: CONSTRUCTING A LANGUAGE This module followed on from module 5SSEL020 - The Making of Language. Where The Making of Language combined two areas of language teaching (language creation and language origins), Language Construction concentrated on language construction only, while language origins was covered by 6SSEL045 - The Origins of Language. The files associated with the 2020 session, the final year that the module ran, are given below. Module Guide and General Files Module Guide Introductory PowerPoint Sample language construction assignment Using Word to make your work more readable Lecture PowerPoints Lecture 1 - Psychology of language creation Lecture 2 - Continuous creation Lecture 3 - Grammar 1 Lecture 4 - Grammar 2 Lecture 5 - Grammar 3 Lecture 6 - Doing things with words Lecture 7 - Artificial languages 1 Lecture 8 - Artificial languages 2 Lecture 9 - Metaphor in translation Lecture 10 - Language and culture Lecture handouts Lecture 1 - Psychology of language creation Lecture 2 - Continuous creation Lecture 3 - Grammar 1 Lecture 4 - Grammar 2 Lecture 5 - Grammar 3 Lecture 6 - Doing things with words Lecture 7 - Artificial languages 1 Lecture 8 - Artificial languages 2 Lecture 9 - Metaphor in translation Lecture 10 - Language and culture Lecture discussion tasks Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 7 Lecture 8 Lecture 10 Language Construction handouts Word types Language sounds Tenses Adpositions and ditransitives Conjunctions and pronominalisation Meaning and negation Regular and irregular forms Making meanings Producing a translation Marking Mandubza Marking Criteria Marking criteria - Report Marking criteria - Translation Marking criteria - alternative assignment – Essay