University of Algiers 2 Academic Year: 2021/2022

Department of English Module: Linguistic Theories

L2/ S4 Course Ms. Athmani F.Z

S4 Course Outline
PART ONE: AMERICAN SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS

Lecture 1/ American Structuralism:

Bloomfieldian Structural Linguistics
Behaviourism
Lecture 2/ Generativism:
The Chomskyan Revolution
Competence and Performance
PART TWO: EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS
Lecture 3 / Functionalism:
The Functional school: Principles and Foundation
Systemic Functional Linguistics / SFL

PART THREE: POST-CHOMSKYAN LINGUISTICS

Lecture 4/ Communicative Competence
Lecture 5/ Introducing Sociolinguistics

Basic Readings:
- Crystal, D (1971) Linguistics. London: The Penguin Group.
- Lyons, J. (1981) Language and Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
- Polsky, B (2012) Sociolinguistics. Oxford: OUP
- Robins, R.H (1967) A Short History of Linguistics. London: Longman Group Limited.
- Trudgill,P (2000) Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to language and Society. Penguin