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Introduction to Language Science [FLTR1530]
[30h] 3.5 credits

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This course is taught in the 2nd semester

Teacher(s):

Yves Bestgen, Philippe Hiligsmann (coord.), Lambert Isebaert

Language:

French

Level:

First cycle

>> Aims
>> Main themes
>> Content and teaching methods
>> Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
>> Other credits in programs

Aims

This introductory linguistics course aims to develop in the student an appreciation for language understood as a global, rather than simply a linguistic, system of signs.

Main themes

To develop such an appreciation, the students must grasp some of the essential concepts used to understand how language works, both internally (basic units and structures), and externally (in relation to other disciplines). The course will introduce these concepts and will lead into a reflection about the text and the image as the privileged system of signs of a culture, if not of ideologies. The course will also examine different artistic modes of expression.
The course consists in: 30 hours of lecture; 10 hours of tutorial; 30 hours of personal study.
Content: 1. Semiological approach (2h). 2. Internal description of language (10h). 3. Psychological dimension (6h). 4. The sociological and intercultural dimension (6h). 5. The historical and comparative approach (6h).

Content and teaching methods

This introductory course aims to develop a reflection on language. We will give an overview of the principal concepts to understand how language works (internal description of the language and relations with other disciplines: psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, intercultural approach and historical linguistics).

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Course holder.
The course should ideally be given by a teachers team.

Equivalence.
Total and reciprocal equivalence between FLTR1530 Introduction to language sciences and PSP 1125 Language Sciences.

Other credits in programs

CLAS11BA

Première année de bachelier en langues et littératures anciennes, orientation classiques

(3.5 credits)

Mandatory

GERM11BA

Première année de bachelier en langues et littératures modernes, orientation germaniques

(3.5 credits)

Mandatory

HORI11BA

Première année de bachelier en langues et littératures anciennes, orientation orientales

(3.5 credits)

Mandatory

ISLA21

Première licence en langues et littératures orientales (langue arabe et islamologie)

(3.5 credits)

LAFR11BA

Première année de bachelier en langues et littératures modernes et anciennes

(3.5 credits)

Mandatory

ROGE11BA

Première année de bachelier en langues et littératures modernes, orientation générale

(3.5 credits)

Mandatory

ROM11BA

Première année de bachelier en langues et littératures françaises et romanes, orientation générale

(3.5 credits)

Mandatory



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