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The Use of Language - ARTS1691
Students studying

 
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Languages and Linguistics
 
 
Course Outline: http://languages.arts.unsw.edu.au/currentstudents/courseoutlines.shtml
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Excluded: LING1500
 
 
Fee Band:   (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The course examines how contemporary linguists deal with issues of language use: the nature of human communication, the influence of social attitudes on language, first and second language acquisition, the historical development of languages, language universals and language typology, regional and situational variation in language.

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