Introduction to Linguistics

This subject is not offered in 2013.

60 hours

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This unit introduces students to the discipline of linguistics. The course will introduce the domains of morphology, syntax, semantics, phonology, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. The course will introduce some of the techniques used for describing and analysing language.

At the completion of this course students will:

• be aware of linguistics as an academic discipline and acquire terminology for discussing language
• understand some of the techniques available for analysing words, morphemes, sentence constituents and sentence structure, and be able to apply the techniques presented in class
• understand language variation and language use

• Morphological and syntactic analysis report of 1500 words submitted in week 8 - 30%
• Short answer test (semantics, pragmatics, phonology) to be held in week 12 - 20%
• Two hour written exam - 50%

Hurdle requirement: Students must pass the written exam in order to pass the subject.

Cruz-Ferreira, M. and Abraham, S.A. (2011). The language of language: A linguistics course for starters. 3rd Ed. CreateSpace.

Nil.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject students should have:

• well developed problem solving skills
• an ability to evaluate and synthesise information in a flexible manner
• a capacity to articulate the knowledge gained in both oral and written forms