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APG4698

Faculty of Arts

12 April 2013 26 May 2013

Postgraduate - Unit

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Arts
Organisational UnitLinguistics
OfferedClayton First semester 2013 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Dr Howard Manns

Notes

Previously coded ALM4110

Synopsis

Gain an overview of the 'core' areas of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax (grammar), semantics/ pragmatics and historical linguistics. In essence, this unit provides you with a foundation for later work in applied areas of the discipline. It approaches language as a medium of communication and focuses on the structures and functions that it manifests and on the analysis of linguistic data. You will be introduced to techniques for different levels of language analysis; key questions and theoretical and descriptive frameworks adopted in the analysis of language; and some of the applications of these theoretical tools.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. describe the fundamental concepts and tools of analysis used in linguistics and applied linguistics;
  2. apply linguistic analysis techniques to a range of data sets;
  3. understand and appropriately use discipline-specific technical terms and notation conventions introduced in the unit
  4. apply linguistic insights to everyday experience.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Howard Manns