Introduction to Lingistic

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Teaching results:
Knowledge:
- Acquire basic information about the history and development of linguistics as a discipline in its own right. In particular, attention will be focused on acquiring knowledge about the nature and structure of language as a system, but also about its functioning as a process of communication. Students will acquire knowledge of the phenomena and processes occurring at the different levels of language.
Competences:
- Acquire a holistic view of the nature of linguistics and an understanding of the subject matter of its study.
- Acquisition of competence in perceiving and understanding the differences between functionalist and formalist approaches to the study of language and an understanding of the processes occurring at specific levels of language.
- Understanding the factors - discourse parameters that significantly influence the use of particular linguistic devices in a given communicative situation.
Skills:
- Acquisition of key relevant concepts and acquisition of the ability to analyse linguistic phenomena correctly and to use appropriate linguistic terminology.
- Based on an understanding of the nature of the parameters of discourse, develop the ability to select and use specific linguistic resources in order to achieve specific communicative goals.

Indicative content

Indicative content:
- Linguistics and the subject of its study, interdisciplinary overlaps of linguistics
- European structuralism and F. de Saussure
- Functionalist vs. formalist approach to the study of language
- Language and communication, context, discourse
- Linguistic sign, morphological typology of languages, relationship between linguistics and
semiotics
- Planes of language and their characteristics

Support literature

Support literature:
Required:
1. LATHAM-KOENIG, Ch.; OXENDEN, C. et al.: English File Upper-Intermediate Students Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019.
2. LATHAM-KOENIG, Ch.; OXENDEN, C. et al.: English File Advanced Students Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019.
3. GOWHER AHMAD NAIK (ed.): Advanced Communication Skills. Punjab: Lovely Professional University. 2011.
Optional:
1. HANNAWA, A.F.; SPITZBERG, B.H.: Communication Competence. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 2015.
2. JEYA SANTHI, V.; SELVAM, R.; PHIL, M.: Advanced Skills for Communication in English: Book I. Chennai: New Century Book House. 2015.

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 30%
Final evaluation: 70%

Student workload

Total study load (in hours):
Full-time study: 104 hours
26 hours – attendance at lectures
26 hours – attendance at seminars
16 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
36 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

English

Date of approval: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 03.05.2022