| Code: ETI203 |
Course Title: LINGUISTICS I |
Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 |
ECTS: 4 |
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| Year/Semester of Study |
2 / Fall Semester |
| Level of Course |
1st Cycle Degree Programme |
| Type of Course |
Compulsory |
| Department |
TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING (ENGLISH) |
| Pre-requisities and Co-requisites |
None |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to Face |
| Teaching Period |
14 Weeks |
| Name of Lecturer |
SAMET TAŞÇI (samettasci@nevsehir.edu.tr) |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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| Language of Instruction |
English |
| Work Placement(s) |
None |
| Objectives of the Course |
| The aim of this course is to enable students to recognize the basic concepts of linguistics, to have knowledge about the origins of languages, and to understand the similarities and differences between human language and animal language. In addition, the scope of this course is to enable students to comprehend linguistic fields such as Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Word Formation Process, Grammar and Syntax, and to create language awareness. |
| Learning Outcomes |
PO |
MME |
| The students who succeeded in this course: |
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| LO-1 |
can obtain knowledge regarding to basic topics in linguistics. |
PO-2 To be able to have basic and specialized knowledge about the language and history of the cultures taught
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Examination
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| LO-2 |
can explain components, evolution and process of language. |
PO-3 To have problem solving skills to compete with the problems due to the cultural and lingual differences
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Examination
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| LO-3 |
can define fields of linguistics; such as phonetics, syntax , stylistics and semantics, etc. |
PO-4 To be able to think analiytically
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Examination
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PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
| Course Contents |
| Basic concepts in linguistic analysis; the nature, structure and use of language by way of awareness raising activities, error analysis of language learners’ production, case studies, and comparative analysis of native and target languages; the components of language as a system: linguistic competence and performance, branches of linguistics, types of grammar, language universals, creativity of linguistic knowledge, arbitrariness of language, sign languages, artificial languages and animal communication; brain and language, lateralization and handedness, evolution of language, human language processing models, research on language and disorders (e.g., dichotic listening, split brain, WADA); phonetics: acoustic, auditory and articulatory phonetics, speech organs, phoneme, vowels and consonants, IPA, diphthongs, tripthongs, manner and place of articulation; phonology: sound patterns, assimilation, dissimilation, linking, consonant clusters, silent letters, suprasegmentals, stress and intonation; semantics: componential analysis, entailment, semantic relations, sense and reference, collocational meaning. |
| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
The origins of Language 1.1 The divine source 1.2 The genetic source 1.3 the natural sound sourcel |
Discussion and lecture |
| 2 |
The development of writing 2.1 Pictograms, idiograms 2.2 Syllabic writing 2.3 Written English |
Discussion and lecture |
| 3 |
The properties of language 3.1 Displacement 3.2 Arbitrariness 3.3 Productivity 3.4 Discreteness 3.5. Duality |
Discussion and lecture |
| 4 |
Animals and human language |
Discussion and lecture |
| 5 |
The sound of language 5.1 Phonetics 5.2 Articulation 5.3 Place of articulation 5.4 Manner of articulation 5.5 Vowels |
Discussion and lecture |
| 6 |
The sound patterns of language 6.1 phonology 6.2 Minimal pairs and sets 6.3 Assimilation |
Discussion and lecture |
| 7 |
Words and word formation process 7.1 Coinage 7.2 Barrowing 7.3 Compounding 7.4 Blending |
Discussion and lecture |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
Morphology 8.1 Morphemes 8.2 Derivational vs inflectional |
Discussion and lecture |
| 10 |
Phrases and sentences: grammar 9.1 Types of grammar 9.2 Traditional grammar 9.3 the prescriptive approach 9.4 the descriptive approach |
Discussion and lecture |
| 11 |
Syntax 10.1 Generative grammar 10.2Deep and surface structure 10.3 Structural ambiguity |
Discussion and lecture |
| 12 |
Syntax 11.1 Tree diagrams |
Discussion and lecture |
| 13 |
REVISION |
Discussion and lecture |
| 14 |
REVISION |
Discussion and lecture |
| 15 |
REVISION |
Discussion and lecture |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
Yule, George (2017). The study of language. 5th ed., Cambridge University Press. |
| 2 |
Fromkin, V., Rodman, R. & Hyams, N. (9TH Edition). An Introduction to Language, Wadsworth Cengage Learning. |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
| Yule, G. (2016). The study of language. Cambridge university press. |
