EFL289 FOUNDATIONS IN LINGUISTICS I
| Course Code: |
3660289 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
2(2-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
3.0 |
| Department: |
Teaching English As A Foreign Language |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
Course Content
Introduction to components of language as a cognitive system (nature, structure, and usage of language); basic concepts of linguistic competence and acquisition; phonetics (articulatory, acoustic, auditory; articulation of consonants and vowels; International Phonetic Alphabet); language and the brain (lateralization, autonomy, critical age); language evolution; semantics (lexical and phrasal semantics; compositionality; truth conditions, paraphrase, entailment, contradiction, presupposition); pragmatics (linguistic and situational context, speech acts, maxims of conversation).
