Syllabus
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Course Code: MENL-534 Course Name: ENGLISH LANGUAGE (PART-I) |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Phonetics : Speech Mechanism, Role of different organs of speech, Sounds of English, Description of Sounds, Syllable and Stress, Intonation and its functions. |
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| 2 | a) Transcribing words phonemically with primary stress (using the symbols of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 10th edition) b) Marking stress and tones: Falling, Rising; Fall-Rise; Rise-Fall in sentences (For blind candidates only in lieu of Unit-II a&b) Purple Patch; Register; Received Pronunciation; Roman Jacobson; Language Varieties of English; Soft Skills; Malapropism; Phonology; Humanism. (The candidate is required to attempt any four items out of the six items) |
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| 3 | History of English Language: Old English, Middle English, Latin, Celtic and Scandinavian Influence on Old English, Renaissance and the English Language, Change from Old to Modern English. |
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| 4 | (a) Word formation process : Coinage; Borrowing; Compounding; Blending Clipping; Back formation; Conversion; Acronyms; Derivation; Prefixes; Suffixes; Affixes. (b)Translation: Hindi to English |
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