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The Use of Language - LING1500
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Languages and Linguistics
 
 
Course Outline: School of Languages and Linguistic Course Outlines
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative 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

  • Assignment - 30%
  • Test - 20%
  • Essay - 40%
  • Tutorial participation - 10%

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