Our first collaborative project as a group consisted in
getting to know in depth one of the core linguists within this course. Our assigned
linguist was Bakhtin and it was actually a challenge to understand and explain
his work to the rest of the students in just ten minutes. Despite our doubts at
the beginning, we all agreed that Bakhtin’s work
was very interesting and important for all the philologists and especially
those who want to pursue a more literary approach in their career. In our
opinion, the aim of the project was to grasp the timeline of the most
influential linguistic theories and frame them in a continuum. This project
helped a lot with that and made us use a very important technique when
teaching: synthesizing. Being able to explain a linguistic theory as a group
and in a personal sort of way is not an easy task. It requires comprehension instead
of memorization, proper vocabulary usage, examples and so on. We think this
type of activity made us realize that there is a need of information adaptation
and it is our responsibility as teachers to highlight the most important
aspects and maybe skip the less important ones. For instance, Bakhtin holds
three main theories which are related one to another: Dialogism, Polyphony and
Heteroglossia and it would be very difficult to explain them individually even
if one of them bears more theoretical knowledge than the others. As a group, we
decided to integrate them all in our presentation and talk about them from a holistic
perspective. That was our particular way to proceed as autonomous topic
designers, nonetheless, there are other different approaches which we may use
in a future.
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As for the linguists we have seen in our peers’ presentation, we would like to
highlight Noam Chomsky. Being the father of modern linguistics, our admiration
for this man is beyond explanation. Of course, we already knew some aspects of
his personal life and his Universal Grammar theory, but still, we all agreed
that it always amazed us how influential this theory was and still is even
after receiving harsh criticism.
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