Course Catalog 2009-2010 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Sari Isokääntä

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 3 : Friday 10 - 12, K2113 Wednesday 10 - 12, K2113	DI-Opiskelijat International Students Jatko-opiskelijat Kandiopiskelijat

Requirements

Active participation, project work and final examination.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

A deeper understanding of the nature of natural languages and linguistic phenomena, as well as the terms, methods and points of view in general linguistics.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	I. Linguistics & the nature of human languages	Language families	History of linguistics
2.	II. Linguistic structures: Phonetics, phonology, morphology & syntax	The articulatory system Corpus linguistics	Forensic phonetics
3.	III. Linguistic meaning, use & context: semantics & pragmatics	The cooperative principle
4.	IV. Language, culture & society: sociolinguistics & anthropological linguistics	Language evolution and change; linguistic identity

Evaluation criteria for the course

Active participation, project work and final examination.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides							English
Other literature	Textbook extracts						Suomi
Other online content	Articles, web resources				Available in Moodle		Suomi

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Additional information

CEF-level C1

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Group 1: lectures Wed 10-12 K2112, Fri 10-12 K2112 (per. 2), K2113 (per. 3)		Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	22.06.2009
Modifier	Sari Isokääntä