80270 INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

Full Unit Specifications
(Variations may occur between Day & External Offerings)

Semester 1 (Day)

Credit Points 0.50

This half unit will cover:
Introduction: What is language?
The various components of language:
     the sounds of language (phonetics)
     the sound patterns of language (phonology)
     the meanings of language (morphology, semantics, pragmatics)
     the sentence patterns of language (syntax)
     the meanings of language at discourse level
Language varieties
Language, society and culture
Selected Readings