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Course Catalog 2011-2012
KIE-3446 Introduction to General Linguistics, 3 cr |
Additional information
CEF level: C1. The course is particularly recommended to those doing languages as a minor subject.
NB: When a course is over-subscribed, i.e. there are more sign-ups than places on the course, then we enrol the required number of students according to the number of 'study points' they have. Students have to be present on the first day of the course to be sure of retaining their place.
Suitable for postgraduate studies
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 | Forensic phonetics |
| 3. | III. Linguistic meaning and language use in context (semantics & pragmatics) | Corpus linguistics | Psycholinguistics |
| 4. | IV. Language, culture & society (sociolinguistics & dialectology) | Language evolution and change; anthropological linguistics |
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
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| KIE-3200 English for Engineers | Mandatory | 1 |
| KIE-3210 English Language Exam | Mandatory | 1 |
1 . One of these courses must be completed.
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses
More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| Group 1: Wed 12-14, Fri 10-12 |