ENG 232

Course Description:
This course, as a continuation to Eng. 320 (Linguistics I), constitutes part II of the introduction of students to the discipline of linguistics. It introduces the students to the areas of pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.
5. Course Aims and Objectives:
1. Students must be able to demonstrate knowledge of the main topics within pragmatics and discourse analysis and of approaches to pragmatic analysis.
2. Students must demonstrate understanding of some of the main issues in psycholinguistics including language and the brain and language acquisition.
3. Students must be able to demonstrate knowledge of the main topics of sociolinguistics and language variation.
6. Course Main Subjects:
Course activities
A. Lectures/discussions
B. Reading assignments
C. In-class/out-of-class text assignments
7. Methods of Assessment:
Course grading criteria Midterm 1 15% Midterm 2 15% 2 Quizzes 10% (5% each) Presentation 10% Assignments 10%
Final Exam 40%
100%
Any form of plagiarism will not be tolerated and will be rejected.
Attendance
This course will include in-class discussions and activities with other students and the instructor. Students who are not in class will not be able to live up to their responsibilities to either themselves or the rest of the class. Therefore, regular attendance is expected.
For every two times you are late, it will be considered one absence.
8. Textbook(s):
Yule, George. (2006). The Study of Language,. Cambridge: Cambridge.
(3rd or 4th edition)
9. Syllabus:
Week Topic Page 1 Orientation week 2 Introduction Pragmatics: What is Pragmatics? , context, deixis, reference
3 Pragmatics: inference, anaphora, presuppositions, speech acts, politeness Exercises
112-117 4 Discourse Analysis: speech events, conversation analysis, turn taking,
118-123 5 Discourse Analysis: cooperative principle, implicatures, hedges, schemas and scripts Exercises
124-129 6 Quiz 1 8/10 Psycholinguistics: Language and the Brain,
130-133 7 Psycholinguistics: Tip of the tongue & slips of the tongue, Aphasia, Feral children
137-158 8 Hajj break! 9 10 Midterm 1 5/11 First Language Acquisition
162-170 11 Second Language Acquisition
194-202 12 Language and Regional variation Quiz 2 19/11
205-208 13 Language and Social variation
14 Midterm 2 3/12 15 + 16 Presentations on Research assignment
***Presentations can be done anytime during weeks 12 – 16.***