Syllabus

Course Code: BH-ENG 304    Course Name: Language and Linguistics

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Language: language and communication; language varieties: standard and non- standard language; language change.
Masthrie, Rajend and Rakesh M Bhatt. 2008. World Englishes: The study of new linguistic varieties.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2 Structuralism: De Saussure, Ferdinand. 1966. Course in general linguistics. New York: McGraw HillIntroduction: Chapter 3.
3 Phonology and Morphology: Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M. Harnish, Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd ed. Fromkin, V., and R. Rodman, An Introduction to Language, 2nd ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974) Chapters 3, 6 and 7.
4 Syntax and semantics: categories and constituents phrase structure; maxims of conversation.
Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M Harnish, Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 1984; Indian edition, Prentice Hall, 1991) Chapter 5 and 6.
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