SCHEDULE

Week # 6 - September 24, 2012
EXAM #1 (in class).
You are allowed to bring with you an index card (3 X 5) with your notes (only on one side of the card). You can use it during your exam (2 hrs., no lecture after the exam). Don’t forget to bring a “blue book” (Bookstore).

Week # 7 - October 1, 2012
Can we all get along?
Normality, violation and offensiveness.

Week # 8 - October 8, 2012
 FALL BREAK!!!

Week # 9 - October 15, 2012
Let’s talk!
Linguistic and language studies of competence in communicating humor.

Week # 10 - October 22, 2012
“Your culture or mine?”
Cross-cultural humor: joking relationships. Etic and emic humor.

Week # 11 - October 29, 2012
My culture, not yours!
Ethnic humor: its nature and functions. Popularity and demise. Part 1.