Week 1

Aug. 9

1: Translation and Meanings

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–4
• Semantics
• Lynn Gordon, "Some Semantic Terminology," Washington State University (2017)
• Jim Feist, "Senses (1)," Significance in Language: A Theory of Semantics (2022) pp. 85–104
• Alan Cruse, Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (2000; Chula access)
  

Aug. 11

2: Informative Texts

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–13
• Informative text exercise passage 1
  
• "เปิดใจป้าติดโควิด นั่งร้องไห้ริมถนนพัทยา รพ.ไม่รับรักษา ชาวบ้านสุดเวทนา," Khaosod (2022)
• COVID-19 care denial
  
• Aliya Bashir, "In Kashmir, Pregnant Women Were Denied Care over COVID-19 Fears," Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2022)
• Ed Yong, "It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People," The Atlantic (2022)
• Shirley Zhao and Danny Lee, "Hong Kong Pilots Denied Care by Doctors Wary of Covid Sanctions," Bloomberg (2022)
• Joseph Shapiro, "Oregon Hospitals Didn't Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care?," NPR (2020)
  
• News Writing Practices
  • "Reuters Handbook of Journalism," Thomson Reuters Foundation (2008)
  • "BBC News Style Guide," BBC
  • "Reporting the European Union: A Handbook for Journalists," Minorities Network (2014)
  • Headlines
  • "About Headlines," St. Petersburg College (2021)
    
  • "Writing a Headline," BBC
  • Bobby Hawthorne, "It's All in Your Head(line)," University Interscholastic League
  • "Headlines: In a Nutshell," The New York Times (2001)
  • Malcolm Gibson, "Headlines," University of Kansas
  • Merlin R. Mann, "Headlines," Columbia University
  • News story structures
    • Jasmine Roberts, "Inverted Pyramid Style," News Writing Basics, Ohio State University Pressbooks
    • "Reporting and Writing Basics," Handbook of Journalism, Reuters
    • "Story Structure and Styles," Investigative Journalism Manual
    • "Three Story Structures," American Press Institute
  • Guidelines
  • Ricky Telg and Lisa Lundy, "News Writing for Print," University of Florida (2015)
    
  • "Newswriting Guidelines," Northwestern University
  • "Principles of News and Newswriting," University of Vermont
  • Peter Cole, "News Writing," The Guardian (2008)
  • "Writing News," Young Reporter, BBC (lessons)
  • C. Dow Tate and Sherri Taylor, "News Writing," Scholastic Journalism (2013)
    

Discussion: News structure and conventions: Thai and English, digital vs. print; headlines; organization; style; connotative meaning

• Exercise 1
• Meanings and Conventions Collection (Share your findings in the collaborative document.)
• Discussion
• Quiz (5 points; 5 minutes)

• Coursebook pp. 1–22
• Informative text exercise passage 2
• "เชนดังแห่พึ่งหุ่นยนต์ช่วยเสิร์ฟ “สุกี้ตี๋น้อย-อากะ” ทุ่มแก้ปมแรงงานขาด," Prachachat (2021)
• Service industry labor shortage
  
• Emily Barone, "This Should Be a Boom Time for Restaurants. But Owners—and the Few Workers Remaining—Are Struggling," Time (2021)
• Brett Bundale, "'We just don't have enough workers:' Restaurants rocked by labour shortage, inflation," CBC (2022)
• Lachlan Abbott, "Restaurants, cafes turn to staff recruitment apps amid worker crisis," The Sydney Morning Herald (2022)
• T. A. Walker, "Robot workers help worker shortage at sushi restaurant at Delray Marketplace," WPTV (2022)

• Exercise 2
• Translation Collection (Input your text into the shared document.)
  
• Discussion
  

• Coursebook pp. 1–27
• Informative text exercise passage 3
• "สรรพากรเเจงผู้มีกำไรจากสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัล ต้องยื่นภาษีให้ถูกต้อง," MCOT (2022)
• Cryptocurrency and taxation
  
• "Virtual Currencies," Internal Revenue Service (2022)
• Josh Taylor, "Cryptocurrency and tax: could you end up paying the ATO more than you earned?," The Guardian (2022)
• Alex Gailey and Kendall Little, "Yes, Your Crypto Is Taxable. Here’s How to Report Cryptocurrency to the IRS in 2022," Time (2022)
• Mark Hooson, "Cryptocurrency Glossary of Terms and Acronyms," Forbes (2022)
• "Cryptocurrency," Investopedia
  

• Exercise 3

Week 3

Aug. 23

5: Informative Texts

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–32
• Informative text exercise passage 4
• Thai animation
  
• "การ์ตูนเรื่องแรกของประเทศไทย เรื่อง 'เหตุมหัศจรรย์,'" Tnews (2017)
• "การ์ตูนไทยเรื่องแรก เหตุมหัศจรรย์ (๒๔๙๘) Amazing Incidents (1955)," Film Archive (2014; video clip, 7:28 min.)
• "Payut Ngao-krachang, Father of Thai Animation," Film Archive, Google Arts and Culture (2021 online exhibit)
• First animation
  
• Tim Dirks, "Animated Films," Filmsite
  
• "Animation: The History of Animation," Into Film
• "History of Chinese Animation," Ministry of Culture (2011)

Aug. 25

6: Informative Texts

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–34
• Informative text exercise passage 5
• คุลิกา แก้วนาหลวง "การพาศิลปะเข้าสู่ Metaverse ของ วัจนสินธุ์ จารุวัฒนกิตติ แห่งแกลเลอรี Palette Artspace," A Day Bulletin (2021)
• Watjanasin Charuwattanakitti
  
• Museum Minds, "Palette Artspace," The Cloud (2020)
• "Watjanasin Charuwattanakitti - Palette Artspace & Green Lantern," Bangkok Haps (2020 interview; video clip, 4:42 min.)
• Suwitcha Chaiyong, "The Blockchain Disruption," Bangkok Post (2021)
  
• NFTs
• "Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)," Ethereum
• Mitchell Clark, "NFTs, Explained," The Verge (2022)
• Metaverse
• Eric Ravenscraft, "What Is the Metaverse, Exactly?," Wired (2022)
• Adrian Ma, "What Is the Metaverse, and What Can We Do There?," The Conversation (2022)
• Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, "The Metaverse in 2040," Pew Research Center (2022)
• Banksy
• Banksy (official website)
• "Watch Banksy's $1.4 million painting 'self-destruct,'" CNN (2018; video clip, 5:33 min.)
• "Banksy publishes video detailing auction stunt plan," Guardian News (2018; video clip, 1:00 min.)
• Jonathan Edwards, "Banksy tried to destroy his art after it sold for $1.4 million. The shredded version just went for $25.4 million," The Washington Post (2021)
• Cristina Criddle, "Banksy art burned, destroyed and sold as token in 'money-making stunt,'" BBC (2021)
• Jamie Redman, "A Group of Crypto Proponents Burned an Original Banksy 'Morons' Print and Turned It into an NFT," Bitcoin.com News (2021)
  
• Word Economy
• "Wordiness," Prescott College Library (2022)
• "Eliminating Wordiness," Hamilton College (2022)
• Vicki Krueger, "How to Trim Wordiness in Your Writing," Poynter Institute (2017)

Week 4

Aug. 30

7: Informative Texts

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–43
• Informative text exercise passage 6
• "สุดแปลกขอฝนนำหุ่นฟางช.-ญ.วางท่ากามสูตร ให้ฟ้าผ่า," Nation (2019)
• Rain rituals
• Joseph Sorrentino, "Rain ritual keeps community close to its heritage and in tune with nature," Mexico News Daily (2021)
• "Rain Rite (祈雨祭)," Encyclopedia of Korean Folk Culture, National Folk Museum of Korea (
• Andrew Mambondiyani, "Traditional rainmaking ceremonies resurge in parched Zimbabwe," Reuters (2016)
  
• Thanwadee Sookprasert, "Hae Nang Maew," Rituals, Ceremonies and Local Festivals in Thailand Database, Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (2015)
• Sussy Gumo, "Praying for Rain: Indigenous Systems of Rainmaking in Kenya," The Ecumenical Review (2017)
• Organization
• "Organization and Structure," Purdue Online Writing Lab
  
• "Paper Organization," University of Nevada, Reno
• "Using Old / New Information Order in a Sentence," University of New South Wales (2022)
• "Tips and Tools," Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2022)
  

Sep. 1

8: Informative Texts

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–48
• Informative text exercise passage 7
• Icediry, "รวมคำฮิตเรียกแทนชื่อแฟน ทั้งกวนฮา และมุ้งมิ้งสุด!," Mango Zero (2017)
• Terms of Endearment
• Marin Lyles, "75 of the Cutest Nicknames, Pet Names and Inside Joke Names to Call Your Boyfriend," Parade (2022)
  
• Marisa Lascala, "90 Cute Nicknames for Boyfriends That Go Way Beyond 'Darling,'" Good Housekeeping (2022)
• danthemans lm, "Cute and Funny Nicknames for Couples," Paired Life (2022)
• Madeline Howard, "85 Cute Nicknames for Your Boyfriend (And Why Having Them Is So Good for Your Relationship)," Women's Health (2022)
• Carolyn Twersky, "What Does It Mean When Someone Calls You Babe?," Seventeen (2019)
• Shannon Kennedy, "136 Terms of Endearment in Different Languages," Drops (2019)
• Renee Chandler, "10 Odd Terms of Endearment from around the World," Listverse (2019)
• Languages of Love, BBC (2013)
• Paul Noble, "Languages of love: 10 unusual terms of endearment"
• "Languages of love: Readers' global terms of endearment"
• Vivian Cook, "N Is for Nicknames," Vivian Cook
• Elizabeth Landau, "Why Do We Use Pet Names in Relationships?," Scientific American (2015)
• "'Honey boo boo I wuv you': Why we use pet names," The Hook Up, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2019; audio clip, 26 min.)
• "Ellen Bass: Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh," Poetry Unbound (2020; audio clip, 15:49 min.)
  
• Repetition and Variety
  • Ryan Shirey, "Repetition, Repetition, Repetition," Wake Forest University Writing Center (2014)
  • "Varying Sentence Structure," Walden University Writing Center (2022)
  • "Strategies for Variation," Purdue Online Writing Lab
  • Kristina Tran, "Sentence Variety and Rhythm," San José State University Writing Center (2021)
  • "Sentence Variety," Pasco-Hernando State College Writing Center (2022)

Week 5

Sep. 6

9: Informative Texts

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–50 (end)
  

Sep. 8

10: Expressive Texts

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–50
• Nonfiction expressive text exercise 1
• ธีพิสิฐ มหานีรานนท์, "20 นาที จากเวลา 20 ปีในการทำหนังที่ ‘สนทนากับโลก’ ของ เจ้ย-อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล และมุมมองต่อสังคมไทย ณ ปัจจุบันขณะ," Thairath (2022)
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton on Memoria | NYFF59," Film at Lincoln Center (2021; video clip, 41:09 min.)
• Conor Williams, "Where the Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul Goes, Few Can Follow," Interview (2021)
• Arpiwach Supateerawanitt, "Our conversation with Tilda Swinton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul on 7 major takeaways from Memoria," TimeOut (2022)
• Marshall Shaffer, "Interview: Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Orchestrating Human Expression in Memoria," Slant (2021)
  

Week 6

Sep. 13

11: Expressive Texts

Reading

• Nonfiction expressive text exercise 2
• วัลลภิศร์ สดประเสริฐ, "ป่าบางกระดาน," แรมป่า (2010)
  

Sep. 15

12: Expressive Texts

Reading

• Nonfiction expressive text exercise 3
• ศรุตยา สายเมฆ, "จุดจบของล้อทั้งสาม," สารคดี (2016)

Week 7

Sep. 20

13: Expressive Texts

Reading

• Fiction exercise 1
• ภาณุ ตรัยเวช, "บูเครแองเกลส," ลิงหิน และเรื่องสั้นอื่น ๆ (2020)
  

Sep. 22

Week 8

Sep. 27

15: Expressive Texts

Reading

• Fiction exercise 3
• อุทยานสวัสดิ์, "เพื่อนแปลกหน้า ห้อง 808," anowl
• "หางเสียงในภาษาไทย," ไทยศึกษา (2018)
  

Discussion: Fiction exercise 3

• Fiction exercise 3
• Translation Collection (cold translations; collaborative content, language and translation issues notes)
• Discussion
• Lecturer: Supitcha

Sep. 29

16: Strategies

(11:00–11:40 in BRK 613 and 11:45–12:30 in BRK 302)

Reading

• Jennifer O'Donnell, "Rook (Nathaniel Thrasher) Chats about Spy × Family," Translation Chat, J-En Translations (2022 podcast; audio clip, 34:40 min.)
  
• "มจธ. ส่ง FIBO – ศูนย์ Login ยกระดับหุ่นยนต์ CARVER ปฏิรูปโลจิสติกส์โรงพยาบาล," กรุงเทพ ธุรกิจ (2022; test 1 source text)

Discussion: Expressive nonfiction mini-mock test and response commentary; test 1 and quizzes 1 and 2 discussion

• Expressive nonfiction mini-challenge
• กุลธิดา สามะพุทธิ, "เรื่องราวของนักสะสมเปลือกหอยแห่งราไวย์," สารคดี (1999; source text)
• Discussion (Time yourself for 15 minutes looking only at the mock test on page 1. Page 2 is the discussion.)
  
• Test 1 discussion

Week 9

Oct. 4

17: Expressive Texts

• Coursebook pp. 1–50
• Expressive texts exercise packet pp. 1–11

Oct. 6

No class (midterm week: October 3–7, 2022)

Week 10

Oct. 11

Reading

• Fiction exercise 4 ("สยามเมืองยิ้ม" p. 10–11)
  

Oct. 13

Week 11

Oct. 18

Reading

• Vocative exercise packet p. 1–8

Oct. 20

Week 12

Oct. 25

21: Vocative Texts
Reading

• Vocative exercise packet p. 1–3
• พศิน อินทรวงค์, "10 ข้อปฏิบัติเพื่อการเติบโตของจิตวิญญาณ," Goodlife (2020)
  

Oct. 27

22: Process and Revision

(BRK 302)

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–50
• Test 2 source text

Week 13

Nov. 1

23: Fiction

Reading

• Coursebook pp. 1–50

Nov. 3

24: Vocative Texts

Reading

• Vocative exercise packet p. 3–4
• วินทร์ เลียววาริณ, "คำสุภาพกับมารยาทที่แท้," ความฝันโง่ ๆ (2006)
• "วินทร์ เลียววาริณ," สำนักพิมพ์ ประพันธ์สาส์น (brief bio)
• Terry Gross, "Comedian Bill Cosby," Fresh Air (1991; audio clip, 22:03 min.)
  

Week 14

Nov. 8

25: Vocative Texts
Reading

• Vocative exercise packet p. 5–6

Nov. 10

No class (Commencement: November 10–11, 2022)

Week 15

Nov. 15

26: Vocative Texts

Reading

• Vocative exercise packet p. 6–7

Nov. 17

No class (APEC Summit: government declared holiday)

Week 16

Nov. 22

• Review and case studies (Each student is responsible for a five-minute review segment. Sign up on the linked-to instruction sheet.)
• Vocative challenge

Nov. 24