80270 INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE
FACULTY OF EDUCATION 1998
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Synopsis
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