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Course Catalog 2010-2011
KIE-3446 Introduction to General Linguistics, 3 cr |
Person responsible
Sari Isokääntä
Lessons
| Study type | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | Summer | Implementations | Lecture times and places |
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Requirements
Active participation, project work and final examination.
Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning
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Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will have an overall understanding of what human language is and how it can be described at different levels of analysis. The student will be familiar with the most central terms and methods of linguistics, and will be able to apply some of these in the analysis of language samples. He or she will be able to comment on and discuss some everyday linguistic phenomena, and explore and present a language-related topic to others in English.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | I. Linguistics & the nature of human languages | Language families | History of linguistics |
| 2. | II. The description of linguistic structures: sounds and sound patterns (phonetics & phonology), words and their components (morphology), and sentence structures (syntax) | The articulatory system Corpus linguistics | Forensic phonetics |
| 3. | III. Linguistic meaning and language use in context (semantics & pragmatics) | The cooperative principle | |
| 4. | IV. Language, culture & society (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 |
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses
Additional information
CEF level: C1. The course is particularly recommended to those doing languages as a minor subject.
Suitable for postgraduate studies
More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| Group 1: Wed 10-12, Fri 10-12 |