Linguistic approaches to English speech and writing

Language

English

Main themes

The course unit introduces students to different branches of English linguistics. It deals with various elements that constitute the foundation of English speech and writing and its use in context, including: 

1. The history and development of English: origin of the language, evolution, diversification  
2. The sounds of English: consonants, vowels, diphthongs, allophones; word stress; intonation 
3. The structure and meaning of English words: morphemes, morphs, allomorphs; inflection and derivation; word formation processes; neologisms 
4. The discourse of English: descriptive and critical discourse analysis; ecolinguistics 

The course unit also shows how the tools of corpus linguistics make it possible to approach these different elements. 

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	Master the terminology of English linguistics
2	Identify, explain and illustrate concepts and phenomena related to English linguistics
3	Carry out a linguistic analysis of a written or spoken English production (phonetic transcription, morphological analysis, discourse analysis, etc.)
4	Use English corpus data to describe and interpret certain aspects of the language
This course unit contributes to the development and command of the following skills and learning outcomes of the ELAL programmes: 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 3.5, 3.6, 4.5, 5.5, 5.6, 6.2, 6.4, 6.6

Faculty or entity

> ELAL