LI 1011 - Introduction to Linguistics

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Landmark College

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Lecture What is language? What enables us to understand one another when we communicate with language? These are questions that linguists seek to answer when they study world languages. This course helps students bring to conscious awareness skills they used as children to learn their native tongue, and then apply these skills to the study of any language. Students engage in linguistic analysis of all types beginning with sound (phonology), progressing to words (morphology), meaning (semantics), sentences (syntax), and conversation (discourse). By the end of the course students should be able to analyze samples from a language entirely unknown to them, identify and classify sounds, words, sentences and explain how speakers of that language use these elements to convey meaning to one another. Knowing how to analyze linguistic patterns is empowering: it helps us understand our own patterns of language use, enabling us to change the way we speak to better communicate in different contexts. It frees us to learn other languages and enter other cultures with confidence and skill. Finally, the ability to discover patterns in social behavior and infer what they mean enhances our ability to learn in any setting. Ultimately, this course is about expanding our world by learning how different people talk about it.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.landmark.edu

Phone Number:

(802) 387-6700

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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