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INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH (FEMALE CAMPUS)

Tentative Weekly Lesson Plan

Fall Semester 2020

Class: MA (English ) Level: 1st Semester

Course title:: Introduction to Language
No. of Lectures Per Week: (3 hrs)

Course Objectives:
1. to introduce the students with nature, structure and function of language
2. to introduce students to some current ways in which sounds, words and
sentences are analyzed.
3. to accustom students with the linguistics theory and it’s various aspects.
4. to make the students able to understand the structure and function of language
and to relate it with real life experience.

Weeks Contents
Week 1 General introduction to the course
23 ,24
Sep
What is language(definitions)
An Introduction to Linguistics (Stuart C.Poole)
Properties of Language
The Study Of Language(George Yule)& Linguistics:An Introduction(
Jean Aitchison)
Week 2 What is linguistics
30th ,1st
Oct
Definitions
Linguistics as a systematic study
Linguistics as a scientific study
Difference between animal and human communication
The Study Of Language(George Yule)& Linguistics:An Introduction(
Jean Aitchison)
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A Course in Linguistics (Tarni Prasad)

Linguistics:An Introduction( Jean Aitchison),
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-linguistics.htm &
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/GlossaryLingu
isticsA.htm
Week 3 Descriptive Linguistics
7-8 Oct
Comparative and Historical Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
Further divisions of these types

Week 4 Sounds of language(Phonetics)

14-15
Oct
Place of articulation, Manner of articulation
Practice of phonetic transcription
The Study Of Language(George Yule)
Week 5 Sound patterns of language (phonology)
21
-22 Oct
Minimal pairs, phonotactics, syllables, clusters, co-articulation
effects
Difference between phonetics & phonology
The Study Of Language(George Yule)
Week 6 Word and word formation
28-29
Oct
Word(definition),Multiple processes of word formation
The Study Of Language(George Yule)
Week 7 Morphology
4-5 Nov
Free and bound morphemes, types
Inflectional and derivational affixes
Morphological Analysis of words with examples

The Study Of Language(George Yule)

Week 8 Grammar, phrases and sentences
11-12
Nov
Types of grammar, Different approaches towards grammar
The Study Of Language(George Yule)
Week 9 Mid- term Exam
18-19
Nov
Week 10 Syntax & Generative Grammar
25-26
Nov
IC analysis
Deep & surface structure, constituent analysis, tree diagram
The Study Of Language(George Yule)& Linguistics:An
Introduction( Jean Aitchison)
Week 11 Semantics
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2-3 Dec Conceptual VS associative meaning, semantic features, lexical

relations
The Study Of Language(George Yule)
Week 12 Pragmatics
9-10 Dec
Invisible meaning, context, deixis, reference, speech acts,
politeness, maxims
Face threatening acts, Face saving acts
The Study Of Language(George Yule)
Week 13 Discourse analysis
16-17
Dec
Definition, cohesion, coherence, speech events, the Co-operative
Principle
The Study Of Language(George Yule)
Week 14 Language, society, culture(sociolinguistics)
23-24
Dec
Major terms and issues
Social factors, language and culture, language universals
Sociolinguistics(Peter Trudgil)
A Course in Linguistics (Tarni Prasad)
The Study Of Language (George Yule)
Week 15 Language acquisition (psycho linguistics)
6-7 Jan
Basic requirements, the acquisition schedule, stages, process
The Study Of Language(George Yule) Aspects of
Psycholinguistics (Dr.Riaz Hassan)
Week 16 Final presentations and discussions
Revision

RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND SOURCES:

The Study Of Language (George Yule)
Linguistics: An Introduction (Jean Aitchison)
Language and Linguistics (John Lyons)
Penguin Dictionary of Language
An Introduction to Language (Stuart C. Poole)
Sociolinguistics (Peter Trudgil)
Linguistics (David Crystal)
A Course in Linguistics (Tarni Prasad)
Aspects of Psycholinguistics (Dr.Riaz Hassan)
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http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-linguistics.htm
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/GlossaryLinguisticsA.htm
http://www.ielanguages.com/linguist.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/words/la/language183528html

Evaluation

Mid Term exam 20 Marks

Assignment 05 Marks

Presentations 05 Marks

Research Project 10 Marks

Terminal exam 60 Marks