ENG-116: Branches of Linguistics

Course Code: 116 Course Title: Branches of Linguistics

Year: 2020 Semester: Spring, 2019
Instructor’s Name: E-mail: moazzam.ali@uog.edu.pk
Dr. Moazzam Ali Malik Website: www.uogenglish.wordpress.com
www.uogbooks.wordpress.com

Course Description The aim of the course is to describe and illustrate basic concepts within
the main branches of Linguistics. The course will also introduce
the linguistic material, in form of activities, to the students to conduct the
practical analysis of the authentic texts. Learners will be required to
perform the activity tasks by applying their understanding about
transcription techniques, tree-diagram constructions, codeswitching,
conversation analysis, etc.
Course Type: Elective

(Compulsory/Core/Elective)

Pre-requisites General understanding of the linguistic structures of poems, plays and

prose.

Goals • The course aims at introducing the students with the current
approaches and methods of analysis in Linguistics.
• The course also aims to enable students to apply the
theories & concepts in Linguistics for the analysis of the
texts drawn from different settings. .
Text/Course Books 1. Yule, G. (2006). The study of language. Cambridge university press.
2. Aitchison, J. (2000). Linguistics (Teach Yourself
Books).Farmer, A. K; Demers, R. A. A Linguistics
Workbook
3. Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., & Hyams, N. (2018). An introduction to
language. Cengage Learning.

Books can be downloaded from the website:

www.uogbooks.wordpress.com

Additional Readings 1. Finch, G. (2016). Linguistic terms and concepts. Macmillan

International Higher Education.
2. Finch, G. (2003). How to study linguistics: A guide to understanding
language. Macmillan International Higher Education.
3. Radford, A., Atkinson, M., Briatain, D., Clahsen, H.,
Spencer, A. 1999. Linguistics: An Introduction. CUP.
4. Todd, L. 1987. An Introduction to Linguistics. Moonbeam
 Publications.
5. Roach, P. 2009. English Phonetics and Phonology: a
Practical Course. Fourth edition. CUP

Lectures 32 sessions of 45 minutes each

Attendance Policy A minimum of 70% attendance is required for a student to be

eligible to take the final examination.

The students with less than 70% of the attendance in a course shall be
given the grade SA (Short Attendance) in such a course and shall not be
allowed to take its End Term Exams and will have to reappear in the
course to get the required attendance to be eligible to sit in the exam
when the course is offered the next time.

Grading The course will be evaluated on the basis of the following percentage:

Mid Term 25%

Sessional work 25%

Presentation/Practical 10%

Assignment/Practical 10%

Quizzes 05%

Final term 50%

Session Schedule

Sessions/ Topics Suggested Readings

Lectures
1&2 Theoretical Aspects of Modern Teacher’s Notes Available at
Linguistics
www.uogbooks.wordpress.com
• Langue & Parole
• Competence & Performance
• Diachronic & Synchronic
• Paradigmatic & Syntagmatic

3&4 Phonetics & Phonology • Text Book (Yule, 2006)

 • Phones, Phonemes & Allophones Chapter # 3 & 4 (Related
• Segmental Features: English Material) Additional
Consonants & Vowels
Materia lRoach, 2009).
Download books from
www.uogbooks.wordpress
.com
5 &6 • IPA Table: Place, Manner and • Text Book (Yule, 2006)
Voicing (English Phonology)
Chapter # 4 (Related
• Cardinal Vowel Chart: Open, Mid
& Close Vowels (Eng. Phonology) Material) Additional
Materia lRoach, 2009).
Activity # 1: Basics of English
Pronunciation & Transcription Download books from
www.uogbooks.wordpress.com

7&8 Morphology

• Morphs and Allomorphs Textbook (Yule, 2006) Chapter #

• Morphemes: Lexical &
Grammatical 5 & 6 (Related
• Affixes, Root, Base, & Stem Material)Download book from
• Inflectional and Derivational
www.uogbooks.wordpress.com
Morphology
• Word Formation Processes
(Definitions only): Compounding,
Coining, Blending, Clipping,
Backformation, Conversion,
Acronyms and Reduplication.

Activity # 2: Morphological Analysis of the

Given Words
9 & 10 Syntax

• Competence & Performance Textbook (Yule, 2006) Chapter #

• Universal Grammar: Surface &
Deep Structure 8 (Related Material)Download
• Levels of Analysis: Word Groups book from
and Phrases
www.uogbooks.wordpress.com
• Types of Phrases: NP, VP, AdjP,
AdvP, PP
11 & 12 • Embedding: Phrases within Phrases
• Tree Diagrams: Introduction &
Practice Textbook (Yule, 2006) Chapter #

Activity # 3: Syntactic Analysis of 8 (Related Material)Download

Sample Sentences (Tree Diagrams) book from
www.uogbooks.wordpress.com

13 & 14 Semantics

• What is meaning? Sememe, Textbook (Yule, 2006) Chapter #

Semiotics
• Grammatical & Lexical Meaning 9 (Related Material)Download
• Connotative & Denotative book from
Meaning
www.uogbooks.wordpress.com
• Sign: Signifier & Signified
• Componential Analysis
• Classical & Prototype Theory of
Meaning
• Lexical Relations: Synonyms,
Antonyms, Homonyms,
Homographs, Homophones,
Polysemy

15 & 16 Revision & Midterm Exam

17 & 18 Pragmatics Textbook (Yule, 2006) Chapter #

• Meaning & Context
10 (Related Material)Download
• Speech Act Theory
• Conversational Maxims book from
• Deixis: Personal, Temporal, & www.uogbooks.wordpress.com
Spatial

Activity # 4: Identification of Deixis from a

Newspaper Article
19 & 20 Second Language Acquisition
Krashen’s Five Hypotheses
Textbook (Yule, 2006) Chapter #
• Acquisition Vs Learning
• The Monitor Hypothesis 14 (Related Material)Download
• Input Hypothesis book from
• The Affective Filter Hypothesis
• The Natural Order Hypothesis www.uogbooks.wordpress.com
 Language Learning Theories
• Behaviourism
• Mentalism
Individual Differences in Language
Learning

• Age
• Gender
• L2 Motivation
• L2 Anxiety
• Language Learning Strategies
21 & 22 Corpus Linguistics Teacher’s Notes Available at

• Types of Corpora www.uogbooks.wordpress.com

• Speech & Text Corpus
• Monolingual, Parallel,
Comparable, Learner, Diachronic,
Specialized Corpus
• Online Corpus: BNC, BROWN,
COCA, BYU

23 & 24 Corpus Linguistics Teacher’s Notes Available at

• Corpus Analysis Tools: Antconc & www.uogbooks.wordpress.com

Wordsmith tools
• Concordance, Annotation
• Keyword in Context

Activity # 5: Exploring 5 given Keywords

from BNC
25 & 26 Sociolinguistics

• Language & Society Relationship Textbook (Yule, 2006) Chapter #

• Society and Social Strata (Groups)
18 & 19 (Related
• Bilingualism & Multilingualism
• Codeswitching & Borrowing Material)Download book from
• Diglossia www.uogbooks.wordpress.com

27 & 28 Discourse Analysis Textbook (Yule, 2006) Chapter #

11 (Related Material)Download
• Difference between Speech &
Writing book from
• Coherence & Cohesion www.uogbooks.wordpress.com
• References: Anaphoric &
 Cataphoric
• Ellipsis, Substitution

29 & 30 Conversational Analysis

• Turn-taking, Overlapping, Textbook (Yule, 2006) Chapter #

Floor-holding, Interruptions
11 (Related Material)Download
• Discourse Transactions
(Opening/Closing) & book from
Discourse Moves
www.uogbooks.wordpress.com
• IRF (Initiation-Response-
Feedback) Structures
• Power & Discourse: Teacher-
Student Discourse & Doctor-
Patient Discourse

Activity # 6: Analysis of a teacher-student

classroom conversation (Sinclair &
Coulthard, 1975)

31 & 32 Revision & Presentations