UNSW Handbook Course - The Use of Language

The Use of Language - LING1500


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: Linguistics
	Course Outline: See below
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Examines how contemporary linguists deal with issues of language use, such as the nature of human communication, the influence of social attitudes on language, the principles of pragmatics, the historical development of languages, language universals and language typology, the nature and evolution of writing, regional and situational variation in language.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

Describe how the meaning of linguistic expressions change in context
Explain the social and regional dimensions of language variation
Explicate the main principles of language change
Exemplify basic cross-linguistic grammatical variation with particular reference to language universals and linguistic typology.

Assessment

Problem set 1 - 25%
Problem set 2 - 25%
Test - 20%
Essay (1500 words) - 30%

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