The seminar Linguistics II builds on Linguistics I. It introduces students to the theories and methods relevant in the following fields: - Semantics (the study of meaning)
- Pragmatics (the study of language use)
- Historical linguistics (the study of language change over time) & the history of the English language
- First language acquisition (how we learn our first language as infants and children)
- Sociolinguistics (the study of the relationship between language and society)
- Corpus Linguistics (the study of language through corpora)
In this course, students will learn to define key concepts and apply their knowledge to investigate various linguistic phenomena. |