English 611 • Terminology in Linguistics and • Literature for Communication • Instructor: Uthai Piromruen, Ph.D. • Associate Professor CEN 6102 First Session Terminolology in Linguistics and Literature for Communication Instructor: Uthai Piromruen, Ph.D. Associate Professor
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English 611
• Terminology in Linguistics and • Literature for Communication
• Instructor: Uthai Piromruen, Ph.D.• Associate Professor
CEN 6102First Session
Terminolology in Linguistics and Literature for Communication
Instructor: Uthai Piromruen, Ph.D.Associate Professor
First Session
• Orientation to the Course• Introduction to Language & Linguistics• 1. Definition of Language• 2. The origins of language• 3. Universal properties of language• 4. Animals & human language• 5. The diversity of linguistics
Orientation to the Course• 1. Course title: English 611: Terminology in Linguistics
and Literature for Communication• 2. Class schedule: Sunday 1-4 pm.• 3. Room: POTDUANG, Humanities Building #1• 4. Instructor: Uthai Piromruen, Ph.D.• Associate professor• 5. Weekly Assignments: Group/individual study
project/questions• 6. Evaluation: Written Test:Midterm 30% Final 30%,
• Select the topic for your study project based on the topics presented in this first session.
• Organize a group of three students.• Choose your group leaders and members.• Write down the topic you selected for your
group.• Search for more new information from the
sources.
Questions # 1
• 1. Why human languages are so much different from one another?
• 2. Why words can have many meanings?• -List some of them.• 3. Can animals learn a human language?• 4. What branches of linguistics are
influencial in today’s living?
1.Introduction to Language & Linguistics
Definition of Language
• “A finite system of elements and principles that make it possible for speakers to construct sentences to do particular communicative
jobs” (Fasold & Connor-Linton, 2006. p. 9, adapted
from Finegan and Besner (1989).
2. The origins of language• 1. The divine source• 2. The natural-sound source• 3. The oral gesture source• 4. Glossogenetics• 5. Physical adaptation: the human teeth,
lips, mouth and tongue, the human larynx, pharynx, the human brain is lateralized
• 6. Interactons and transactions
3. Universal properties of language
• Modularity• Constituency and recursion• Discreteness• Productivity• Arbitariness• Reliance on content• Variability• (Fasold and Connor-Linton, 2006, pp.1-7)
5. The Diversity of Linguistics
1.6 What is Linguistics?
• Linguistics—A scientific study of language.• -The systematic inquiry into human
language—into its structures and uses and the relationship between them, as well as into the development and acquisition of language
The scope of linguistics
• Includes both language structure (and the grammatical competence underlying it)
• And language use (and its underlying Communicative competence)
The branches of linguistics.
• Historically, the central focus of language study has been grammar—patterns of speech sounds, word structure, sentence formation, and meaning.
• More recently, attention has also focused on the relationship between expression and meaning, and context and interpretation, which is called Pragmatics
Other branches of Linguistics
• Language variation across speech communication or within a single community, across time and across situations of use. It seeks two kinds of explanation—cognitive ones—the human language-processing and the social ones--social interaction and the organization of societies
The third group of linguists
• Applies the findings of the discipline to real-world problems in Educational matters, to the acquisition of literacy (reading and writing) and of second languages and foreign languages; in clinical matters, to understanding aspects of Alzheimer’s disease and aphasia; in forensic settings, to analyze the conversation for evidence of conspiracy and others for legal matters, in language policies for cross-cultural communication