The Lexicon, what is it? The mental dictionary. It includes everything you know about a word: how it is spelled, how it sounds, what it means, and how it is used. In addition it studies the organization of that information in the brain and how it is retrieved.
Sociolinguistics, what about that? Well, this class is more than just a random blend of sociology and linguistics. We will be learning about how people use language in society in different ways. Politeness, for example, is expressed in many different ways. What is polite in one group can be considered impolite in another.
Writing Research Papers. This will be a fun class, and we will learn some helpful tips on note taking, writing rough drafts, picking a topic, and all sorts of useful things. (I only wish I'd taken it sooner)
Dance for fitness. Not at all what I had expected, but better. More like Flamenco and a lot less like 'jazzercise'.
Second Year Hebrew. The best term yet, I can see it already. Now we are getting to the very interesting things, the more complex grammar. The verb structure and sentence composition. We should make great progress this term.
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