English Language & Linguistics 2

Overview

The second year course comprises 8 modules, each of which is worth 3.75 points. Students have 17-18 contact periods for each module and these are devoted to lectures and tutorials.

Discourse Analysis 2: Conversation Analysis

By investigating the various aspects of conversational organisation, we will uncover theoretical and practical questions concerning how conversational data should be collected, transcribed, categorised, analysed and interpreted so as to arrive at a meaningful and accurate view of what happens when people talk to each other.

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This paper builds on what you learned in Syntax and Semantics in first year, and serves to prepare you for the study of computational linguistics in 3rd year. It will explore the following topics: morphological processes, phrase structure and predication.

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Psycholinguistics 2: learning a second language

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Phonetics and Phonology 2

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Comparative Linguistics 2: Sign Language

This module aims to provide:

• a linguistic description of South African Sign Language
• a short introductory practical course in SASL

Pictures of the 2005 class learning sign language (taken by M. Middleton):

• Signing'What?'
• Signing 'Your'

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Systemic Functional Linguistics 2

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Semantics 2: meaning in context

• Compositional vs contextual meaning
• Semantics in text mining
• The pragmatics of mediation
• Implicature, politeness and Face

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