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Course Description
This subject discusses the origin of language and introduces basic concepts of linguistic branches and their functions. The lecture is initiated with the explanation on the study of sound that covers sound production, three labels of phoneme. Other lectures address more complex fields, namely: linguistics as a scientific study of language, characteristics of language, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language change,
Program Objectives (PO)
- Analyze language structures logically, critically, and systematically using theoretical linguistic approaches
- Apply basic linguistic theories to analyze English language phenomena
- Interpret language phenomena through cultural perspectives
- Design simple linguistic research using qualitative/quantitative methods
Aktifitas Pembelajaran
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Pertemuan 1 Understanding The Foundations of Linguistics: Introduction -
Pertemuan 2 Understanding the sound system in language; Phonetics and Phonology -
Pertemuan 3 Analyze word formation (affixation, compounding) in English and other languages -
Pertemuan 4 Analyzing sentence structure and formation (Syntax) -
Pertemuan 5 Semantics-meaning in language; Explore lexical relations (synonymy, antonymy) and ambiguity -
Pertemuan 6 Pragmatics: Language in Use; Role-play speech acts (requests, apologies) across cultures -
Pertemuan 7 Sociolinguistics – Language and Society; Identifying dialects, code-switching, or genderlects. -
Pertemuan 8 Midterm Project Workshop; Designing mini survey for language phenomena -
Pertemuan 9 Identifying the relation between each branch from the 1st-7th meeting; Reviewing previous materials -
Pertemuan 10 Language & Identity; discussing how language reflects gender/ethnic identity (SDG 5) -
Pertemuan 11 Corpus Linguistics: Introduction to corpus linguistics -
Pertemuan 12 Filed Linguistics: Understanding how to do filed study on linguistics -
Pertemuan 13 Applied linguistics: Analysing language policy (e.g., English as a global lingua franca) -
Pertemuan 14 Research Presentations: Students create mini survey and present the findings -
Pertemuan 15 Language & Technology: Applying technologies to enhance linguistic study -
Pertemuan 16 Final Exam: Students able to synthesising key concepts in linguistic study
References
- Fasold, Ralph W, and Jeff Connor-Linton. (2006). An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- O’Grady, W & Archibald, J (eds). (2016). Contemporary Linguistic Analysis: An Introduction. 8th edition. Canada: Pearson.
- Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N. 2011. An Introduction to Language (9th ed). Australia: Wadsworth, Cenage Learning.
- Culpeper, J., Malory, B., Nance, C., Van Olmen, D., Atanasova, D., Kirkham, S., & Casaponsa, A. (Eds.). (2022). Introducing linguistics. Taylor & Francis.
- Harley, T.A. (2017). Talking the Talk: Language, Psychology and Science (2nd ed.). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315755458
- Yoshida, M. (2025). Negotiating Gendered Language and Social Identities: Gender, Race and Native Speaker Ideology in Learning Japanese as an Additional Language (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003466697
- Csomay, E., & Crawford, W.J. (2024). Doing Corpus Linguistics (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003363309
- Burgess, R.G. (Ed.). (1982). Field Research: A Sourcebook and Field Manual (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203379998
- Radford, Andrew et al. 2012. Linguistics: An Introduction (2nd ed). UK: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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