Магистратура 2020/2021

Введение в лингвистику

Статус: Курс адаптационный (Прикладная лингвистика и текстовая аналитика / Applied Linguistics and Text Analytics)

Направление: 45.04.03. Фундаментальная и прикладная лингвистика

Кто читает: Департамент литературы и межкультурной коммуникации

Где читается: Факультет гуманитарных наук (Нижний Новгород)

Когда читается: 1-й курс, 1 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Преподаватели: Балакина Юлия Владимировна, Меркулова Эдита Николаевна

Прогр. обучения: Прикладная лингвистика и текстовая аналитика

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 5

Контактные часы: 56

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course studies what language is and what knowledge of a language consists of. Topics covered include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The course will provide some answers to basic questions about the nature of human language. Throughout the course, we will be examining a number of ways in which human language is a complex but law-governed mental system. Students will be guided towards in-depth reading on the topics and given the opportunity to develop the skills of analysis and synthesis of theoretical and methodological issues.

Learning Objectives

• Students will be guided towards in-depth reading on the topics and given the opportunity to develop their skills of analysis and synthesis of theoretical and methodological issues. Students will also be equipped with the core analytical skills necessary to engage in research on language. At the end of this course students will be able to explain the main properties of human languages, appropriately use the linguistic terminology for describing and analyzing language and linguistic phenomena, analyze language-related phenomena using the terminology and theories they have studied in the class, apply basic knowledge and procedures in linguistic analysis and solve basic linguistic problems.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• - knows the symbolic nature of the language - knows the main range of problems of modern linguistics, functions and forms of language - knows how to navigate through theoretical data - knows how to apply the conceptual apparatus of the theory of language in other areas of knowledge, - knows how to find, evaluate and use information from various sources necessary for solving scientific and professional problems

Course Contents

• Phonetics and Phonology
  Phonetic units. Phoneme. The speech organs. The International Phonetic Alphabet. Areas of phonetics. Suprasegmentals. Phonological processes.
• Language and communication
  Approaches to languages. Type versus token. Spoken and written grammar. Fields of linguistics. Relationship among languages.
• Morphology
  Morphemes. Types of Bound Morphemes. Allomorphs. Morphological Typology. How New Words Are Formed The Concepts of Openness and Productivity. Compounding. Acronym Formation. Foreign Word Borrowing. Clipping. Blending. Derivation. Back-Formation. Eponyms: People’s Names. word classes. Nouns. Verbs. Adjectives. Adverbs. Adpositions: prepositions and postpositions. Quantifiers and numerals. Demonstratives. Articles. Conjunctions. Pronouns. Other word classes.
• Syntax
  Constituent structure. The noun phrase. The adpositional phrase. Other types of syntactic constituents. Syntactic Construction Types of Syntactic Structures. Types of Sentences and Clauses. Active or Passive Voice.
• Semantics
  Kinds of signs: icon, index, symbol . Sense and reference. Expressing thoughts: entailments and contradictions. Prototypes. Lexical semantics. Semantic Properties of Words. Distinctive feature analysis. Markedness in Semantics. Semasiology (The semantic structure of the word).Denotational vs Connotational meaning.The evaluative component (Types of evaluative meaning). The emotive component.The stylistic meaning. Hyponyms, synonyms, homonyms, and antonyms. Polysemy: relations between senses. Metaphor/Metonymy. Idioms. Structural Semantics. Constructional meaning. Structural ambiguity. Thematic roles.
• Pragmatics
  Social Meaning. Affective Meaning. Speech Acts. Maxims of Conversation. Semantics versus pragmatics.

Assessment Elements

• individual work
• home assignment
• test

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (1 module)
  0.3 * home assignment + 0.3 * individual work + 0.4 * test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Aronoff, M., & Rees-Miller, J. (2017). The Handbook of Linguistics (Vol. Second edition). Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1484987
• Introducing Syntax. (2017). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.repository.ubn.ru.nl.2066.170565
• Joe E. Pierce. (2019). Languages and Linguistics : An Introduction (Vol. Reprint 2019). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2040319

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Barnes, H. (2017). Linguistics : Past, Present and Future Perspectives. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1530916
• Carnie, A. (2012). Syntax : A Generative Introduction (Vol. 3rd ed). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=531592
• Freidin, R. (2012). Syntax : Basic Concepts and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=458651
• Robins, R. H. (2014). General Linguistics (Vol. 4th ed). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=778554
• Saussure, F. de, & Harris, R. (2013). Course in General Linguistics. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=654248