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Week 1 An Introduction To The Course
Week 1 An Introduction To The Course
Week 1
An introduction to Applied
linguistics
What is linguistics?
What is applied linguistics?
What are the main areas of concern of applied linguistics?
What will this course focus on?
What is Linguistics?
Pragmatics
Semantics Phonology
LINGUIST
ICS
Syntax Phonetics
Morpholo
gy
What is Applied Linguistics?
Linguistics
Applied
Education
Linguistics
Applied linguistics and related
sciences. Linguistics
(the study of the nature, structure and variation of language).
Applied Linguistics
Sociology
(the scientific study of human behavior and the study of society).
Anthropology
(the scientific study of the origin and behavior of man).
Subfields of Applied
Linguistics
Language and Language, work Language, information
education and the law and effect
• First language • Workplace • Literary stylistics,
education, communication, • Critical discourse analysis,
• Second language • Language planning, • Translation and
education, • Forensic linguistics. Interpretation,
• Foreign language • Information design,
education, • Lexicography.
• Clinical linguistics,
• Language testing.
Focus of this course 1/2
Laka, I. (2011) More than one language in the brain. Introduction to the Biological
Study of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
http://www.ehu.eus/HEB/Itziar/More%20than%20one%20language%20in%20the%20b
rain.pdf