Course Description: This course is designed for Fourth year students at the College of Languages/Dept. of English. It introduces the students to Linguistics, its branches, the significance of linguistics in our life such as sociolinguistics, language planning, neurolinguistics, forensic linguistics,.etc. These activities focus on definitions of the common concepts in the field of linguistics. The course examines the political problems of language as in the case of constitutions, minorities’ languages…. This course is of a purely theoretical and practical nature.
This course is based on linguistic texts. The course starts with the most common definitions of linguistic concepts. It is expected that this course will shed light on the culture-specific problems in Linguistics by the end of this course. The students will be asked to do various types of linguistic topics as homework. The students will be asked to do a lot of homework at home out of 10% marks as inter class activity. The course ends up with an important part tackling the language problems . It is hoped that this course will enrich students' knowledge of linguistic issues and pave the way for the smart students who want to continue their studies in the future in the area of pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, mass media language, language planning, forensic linguistics
