Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Introduction to the Course:Linguistics and Macrolinguistics
Week - 2	Language History and Change I: Language Families, Cognates, Comparative Reconstruction
Week - 3	Language History and Change II: Phonological and Morphological Changes
Week - 4	Language History and Change II: Syntactic and Semantic Changes
Week - 5	Language Variation I: Dialectology, Regional Dialects, Types of Variation: phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic
Week - 6	Language Variation II: Degree of Variation: Accent, Dialect, Language; Dialect Atlases, Isogloss, Dialect Boundary, Dialect Continuum
Week - 7	Midterm Week
Week - 8	Midterm Week
Week - 9	Bilingualism, Diglossia, Language Planning, Turkish Language Reform
Week - 10	Contact Languages: Pidgins, Creoles, Pidginization, Creolization, Decreolization
Week - 11	Social Dialects, User-based Variables: Social Class, Education, Ethnic Background, Age, Gender
Week - 12	Social Dialects - Usage-based variables: Style, Prestige, Register, Jargon, Slang, Taboo, Euphemisms
Week - 13	Language, Thought, Culture: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Gognitive View, Language and Nationalism, Language Rights, Language Death
Week - 14	Review and Practice