Week - 1 |
Introduction to the course: Macrolinguistics- Facts and fallacies about language. |
Week - 2 |
Pragmatics I: Implied meaning, types of context, deixis, reference, anaphora |
Week - 3 |
Discourse Analysis I: Discourse, cohesion, coherence |
Week - 4 |
Pragmatics II: Presupposition, speech acts, politeness. |
Week - 5 |
Discourse Analysis II: Gricean maxims, schemata, scripts |
Week - 6 |
Discourse Analysis II: Gricean maxims, schemata, scripts |
Week - 7 |
Language History and Change I: Language families, cognates, comparative reconstruction, sound changes in English and Turkish |
Week - 8 |
Language History and Change II: Lexical and syntactic changes in English and Turkish |
Week - 9 |
Language Varieties I: Accents, dialects, regional variation, isoglosses, dialect boundaries, dialect continuum |
Week - 10 |
Language Varieties II: Bilingualism, language planning, lingua francas, pidgins and creoles |
Week - 11 |
Language, Society and Culture I: Sociolinguistics; varieties based on social class, education, age, gender and ethnic background |
Week - 12 |
Language, Society and Culture I: Sociolinguistics; varieties based on social class, education, age, gender and ethnic background |
Week - 13 |
Language, Society and Culture II: Idiolect, style, register, jargon, diglossia |
Week - 14 |
Language, Society and Culture III: Linguistic determinism, Linguistic relativity, the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Language universals |