Communication and the Structure of Language, 7.5 credits
Kommunikation och språklig struktur, 7.5 hp- Course code
- 2LG068
- Course name
- Communication and the Structure of Language
- Credits
- 7.5 credits
- Form of Education
- Higher Education, study regulation 2007
- Main field of study
- Not applicable
- Level
- GX - First cycle
- Grading scale
- Fail (U) or pass (G)
- Department
- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology
- Decided by
- Utbildningsnämnden Clintec
- Decision date
- 2016-05-04
- Revised by
- Education committee CLINTEC
- Last revision
- 2018-04-10
- Course syllabus valid from
- Autumn 2018
Specific entry requirements
Objectives
On completion of the course, the student is expected to be able to:
- describe how speech is produced based on airstreams, articulation and phonation
- describe how the IPA chart is organized based on airstreams, articulation and phonation
- define, discuss and apply selected concepts to describe linguistic structure in speech, conversation and writing
- account for the units of language and how language is constructed from these units
- carry out linguistic analyses such as basic phonetic transcription, morphemic analysis and classification of words into lexical categories, syntactic and grammatical analysis as well as turn-taking structure
Content
The course highlights the need for tools and concepts to describe linguistic structure in speech, conversation and writing. An overview is given over tools and concepts for the analysis of speech sounds (phonemes, allophones), sound sequences (syllables, morphemes, words), morpheme sequences (words, phrases), phrase sequences (clauses), sentence sequences (complex constructions), statements, prosodic features, turns, turn construction units and adjacency pairs. Differences are highlighted between linguistic structure (e g grammar) and linguistic meaning (e g semantics), as well as between speech, conversation and writing. The course also describes linguistic variation in different levels and sources to such variation e g geographic, social and individual factors.
Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, group work and laboratory sessions. The course also includes home assigments.
Examination
The course is examined through a written examination.
The written examination is graded anonymously (using a identification code number for each student). Students who do not pass the written examination are entitled to five more examination occasions, the first within fourteen days of the notification of the exam result. The third examination is the following regular examination in the course. Each occasion the student participates in the same test counts as an examination. Submission of a blank exam paper is regarded as an examination. In case a student is registered for an examination but does not attend, this is not regarded as an examination.
Transitional provisions
Examination can be carried out according to an earlier literature list during a period of one year after the date of a renewal of the literature list. Examination will be provided during a period of one year after a close-down of the course.
Other directives
The course is carried out in full of The Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, where all teaching in the course is also given. Course evaluation will be carried out according to the guidelines that are established by the Board of education and is mainly web-based.
Literature and other teaching aids
2. ed. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001 - xiii, 229 s. ISBN:0-19-924635-1 (pbk) ; £14.99 LIBRIS-ID:8278206 Library search
Lingvistik, Lunds universitet, 2005
4th ed. : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - 1 PDF-fil (xvii, 320 p. ISBN:9780511683817 (e-book) LIBRIS-ID:11901566 Library search
2., [uppdaterade] uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2013 - 377 s. ISBN:9789147106097 LIBRIS-ID:14224926 Wirdenäs, K. (2013). Samtal och samtalsforskning. In E. Sundgren (ed.), Sociolingvistik (2 ed., pp. 199-235). Stockholm: Liber. Library search
2. uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2009 - 252 s. ISBN:978-91-44-05204-5 (korr.) LIBRIS-ID:11485798 Library search
Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, 2015 URL: Länk Version 1.1 or later
University of Michigan Linguistics, 2016 URL: Länk
2. uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2009 - 205 s. ISBN:9789144052052 LIBRIS-ID:11587965 Library search