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Course Name:
Introduction to Linguistics
Sept. 2012, for Grade 2010 Classes 1-6 English Undergraduate Program Department of English
School of Foreign Language Studies Nanchang University (NCU)
Course Instructor: Prof./Dr. JIANG
Syllabus
Course Description:
This course aims at providing undergraduate juniors of English major with a fundamental and systematic account of the basic knowledge of the studies of linguistics at the modern time with explanations, illustrations, and necessary examples from the course book and also from present English and Chinese language uses, to help develop the students’ interest in this study, to facilitate their understanding of the linguistic terms and theories, and to build a systematic knowledge of the said study.
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Major Books Used for this Course:
1) Hu, Zhuanglin 2006. Linguistics. A Course Book (Third Edition). Beijing
University Press, used as students’ course book.
2) Robins, R. H. 1967/1997. A Short History of Linguistics (4th edn). London,
New York: Longman.
4) Yule, George. 2000. The Study of Language. Beijing: Foreign Language
Teaching and Research Press.
5) Keith Brown et al. (eds.) 2006. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
(2nd edn), Oxford: Elsevier.
6) Collinge, N. E. (ed.) 2005. An Encyclopaedia of Language. London, New York:
Routledge.
7) Strazny, Philipp (ed.) 2005. An Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York, Oxon:
Fitzroy Dearborn.
8) Wikipedia. http://www.wikipedia.org/
9) Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2007. the electronic edition can be accessible on
the internet.
Course Requirements:
1) Attentive listening, active participation, quick note-taking and understanding, nice presentation in class and all the related activities 2) Complete preview, in-class and after-class assignments 3) Pass the final examination
Course Schedule:
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1) General Introduction
2) Chapter 1—Design features, origin, and functions of language
3) Chapter 1 — Main branches, macro-linguistics, and important distinctions in linguistics 4) Chapter 2—Phonetic studies 5) Chapter 2—Phonological studies 6) Chapter 3—Word and Formation 7) Chapter 3—Word/lexical changes
8) Chapter 4—Syntactic relation, construction, and function 9) Chapter 4—Grammatical categories, phrasing and beyond 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15)
Chapter 5—Meaning and sense relation Chapter 5—Meaning analyses Chapter 8—Pragmatics (1)
Chapter 8—Pragmatics (2) --Post-Gricean developments Chapter 11—Linguistics and foreign language teaching Summary
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