Master
2024/2025
Introduction to Linguistics
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (Language Technology in Business and Education)
Area of studies:
Fundamental and Applied Linguistics
Delivered by:
Department of Philology
When:
1 year, 1 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Aleksandr Klimov
Master’s programme:
Language Technology in Business and Education
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Цель освоения дисциплины "Введение в лингвистику" — сформировать представления о языке как объекте изучения, лингвистике и лингвистических методах как науке, углубляющей изучение языка; охватить обширные языки, ознакомиться с основными языковыми лингвистическими понятиями. Дисциплина дает базовые знания в предметной области студентам, не имеющим лингвистического образования.
Learning Objectives
- To provide an idea of language as an object of research, linguistics and linguistic methods as a science that studies language
- To develop an idea of the internal structure of language, levels of language
- To familiarize with the most important linguistic concepts
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Possess basic terms and concepts of phonetics
- Distinguish circumfix from infix, decausative from causative, etc.
- Define the basic processes of speech production, the structure of the speech tract and its departments
- Define the level phenomena of language
- Distinguish the general problems of linguistics
- Define the morphological typology of languages
- Use the basic methods of linguistic research, terms and concepts of morphology
- Define phoneme, archiphoneme, opposition
- Answer the questions about the nature of language and its functions in detail
- Give detailed arguments in favor of or against different linguistic theories
- Navigate the main areas of modern linguistics, both theoretical and applied, in the tasks they set and the methods they use
Assessment Elements
- PresentationThe student compiles an independent thesaurus for the course and provides definitions for all terms that have been included. The project should contain at least 75 terms. The project will be submitted electronically, and the presentation will take place in class.
- EssayA small (4000-6000 characters) essay on a given topic, demonstrating the assimilation of the points proposed in the lectures and seminars of the course. The student is offered two articles with contrasting opinions on one of the studied topics in linguistics. The student must join one of the opinions or present his/her own, applying argumentation using lecture and supplementary materials. The paper is written, off-campus, and submitted electronically to the instructor.
- ExamProvide a complete description of one language of your choice in terms of all linguistic aspects studied. Answer the examiner's additional questions. Provide necessary comments and examples. You have 30 minutes to prepare
