LGERM1523 (Introduction to English linguistics: syntax and stylistics)
The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
The course provides an introduction to the different branches of English linguistics and deals with the various elements that constitute the foundation of the English language and its use in context:
- The sounds of English: vowels, diphthongs, consonants; accentuation; intonation; phonetic transcription; geographical variation (British and American English)
- The structure and meaning of English words: morphemes and allomorphs; inflection and derivation; neologisms, loanwords
- The history and development of English: origin of the language, evolution, diversification
- The social context of English: degree of formality, sociolects
- The discourse of English: written and spoken registers, genres, critical discourse analysis
- Crosslinguistic approaches to English
- Learning and teaching English as a Foreign Language
The course also provides an overview of the methods of analysis of written and spoken English (corpus data; experimental data; qualitative and quantitative approaches).
A la fin de cette activité, l'étudiant est capable de développer un savoir informé sur les disciplines du cursus, répondre à une question écrite à travers un discours informé sur la langue ou la linguistique (notions, courants, théories de référence), recourir de manière adéquate et rigoureuse au vocabulaire, aux notions et aux concepts propres à chacune de ces disciplines, produire un discours qui intègre de manière adéquate et rigoureuse le vocabulaire, les notions et les concepts propres à la linguistique.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Written exam
Continuous assessment: active participation in the exercise sessions and in the online exercises and discussion forums on the Moodle platform
Lectures, PowerPoint presentations, reading list, exercise sessions
The course provides an introduction to the branches of English linguistics and the methods of analysis of written and spoken Englishvia lectures and exercise sessions which give students the opportunity to practise, among other things, phonetic script, morphological rules and discourse analysis.
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