コード MC45-01
系列 系列:I. English Studies
授業科目 2年英文講義1-2
副題 (Language and Culture: the Calendar.)
副専攻 M1
担当者 GATER W.
単位 2
期?曜時 後期 金3
対象学年 1(A)?2年
特記事項

授業概要
 This course aims at giving the student an understanding of the divisions of the year from a cultural perspective. Religious and national festivals will be studied from a point of view of linguistic relativism, stressing vocabulary and etymologies.
課題?評価
 Short quizzes every second week as well as a final examination.
テキスト
 Selected handouts.
参考文献
 V. Green: Festivals and Saints Days.
 C.T. Onions: The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology.
受講生への要望
授業計画
1. General introduction and the calendar.
2. Romance and Germanic etymologies: the seasons, the months and the days of the week.
3. The Christian calendar and its interaction with paganism.
4. Religious holidays: from Christmas to Epiphany.
5. Lent, Good Friday, Easter and Trinity: etymologies and substitutions.
6. The year seen in saints' days.
7. Pagan festivals still celebrated: Hallowe'en and Midsummer's night.
8. National holidays of Britain, the Commonwealth and the U.S.A.
9. Other religious holidays: Jewish, Islamic, Chinese, Japanese.
10. The Zodiac in the West.
11. The Zodiac in the East.
12. General revision, discussion and questions.

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