Unit name | General Linguistics |
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Unit code | MODL20016 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. James Hawkey |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Modern Languages |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The field of Linguistics studies human languages with an aim to understand their underlying structures and principles, both within any given language and comparatively across related and unrelated languages. In this unit we will study Language, i.e. the cognitive system steering the processing of linguistic in- and outputs of our native and any foreign languages we use, by learning about principal analytical tools in the fields of phonology, morphology, and syntax. We will draw on examples from a wide range of languages, though principally from European ones, including English. Students will learn how to analyse complex utterances and divide them up into meaningful units, and compare similarities and differences across languages.
Aims:
The unit aims to
By the end of the unit, successful students will be able to demonstrate:
1 x 1 hour weekly seminars and 1 x 1 hour weekly lectures.
one 2000 word essay and one 2 hour exam (50%/50%) testing ILO's 1-4
Poole, Stuart. 1999. An Introduction to Linguistics. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Fromkin, Victoria et al. 2007. An Introduction to Language. Boston: Wadsworth.