MODL1010-01.The Language Phenomenon.F16.Hadziavdic,Habiba

Goals: To understand language, the uniquely human enterprise, and particularly the English language. To describe language - its sound patterns, its forms, its meanings, its structural patterns. To determine how languages are born, evolve, and die. To discern how both first and second languages are acquired. Content: English phonetics, phonology, morphology, writing, syntax, semantics. Language both in its social context - dialects, slang, taboos, language acquisition-and in its historical context-philology and etymology. Class activities may include reading from Lewis Carroll, collecting of speech samples from sound tracks, media, and the street, creating a new language and analyzing word games. Taught: Annually. Credits: