Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Sari Isokääntä

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 4 : Wednesday 10 - 12, K2242 Per 4, 5 : Friday 10 - 12, K2113 Per 5 : Wednesday 10 - 12, K2113	DI-Opiskelijat Jatko-opiskelijat KV-opiskelijat Kandiopiskelijat

Requirements

Active participation, project work and final examination.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

A deeper understanding of the nature of natural languages and linguistic phenomena, as well as the terms, methods and points of view in general linguistics.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	I. Linguistics & Natural languages; Language universals & typological differences between languages	Language families	History of linguistics
2.	II. Linguistic structures: Phonetics, phonology, morphology & syntax	The articulatory system Forensic phonetics	Transformational Generative grammar
3.	III. Linguistic meaning, use & context: semantics & pragmatics	The cooperative principle
4.	IV. Text linguistics & discourse analysis	Corpus linguistics
5.	V. Language, culture & society (e.g. sociolinguistics & anthropological linguistics)	Language evolution and change; linguistic identity

Evaluation criteria for the course

Active participation, project work and final examination.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides							English
Other literature	Textbook extracts						Suomi
Other online content	Articles, web resources				Available in Moodle		Suomi

Prerequisites

Additional information

CEF-level C1

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Ryhmä 1: luennot ke 10-12, pe 10-12		Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	23.06.2008
Modifier	Eeva Ylhäinen