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GRAMÁTICA INGLESA IGRAMÁTICA INGLESA I

THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE:

LINGUISTICS

CONTENTS THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE: LINGUISTICS

**1. What is linguistics?

2. Grammar within the scope of linguistics
3. Exercises** **CONTENTS THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE:
4. What is linguistics?
5. Grammar within the scope of**

Other recommended readings

• Collins & Hollo ( 2010 ):

Collins, P. & C. Hollo (

An introduction. 2 nd ed.

• Leech et al. ( 2005 ): Chapter

Leech, G., M. Deuchar

English grammar for today

2 nd ed. Houndmills: Palgrave

Other recommended readings

: Chapter 1

( 2010 ). English grammar.

. London: Palgrave.

Chapter 1

& R. Hoogenraad ( 2005 ).

today. A new introduction.

Palgrave Macmillan.

1. What is linguistics? Language makes us human. Whatever lives, and the use of language underpins Understanding language gives us insight investigation of the rest of the universe and bees, may be just as intelligent, morally worthwhile, but they don’t ‘human’. (Smith 2006 : 341 ) Why does language provide such a because of its unique role in capturing endeavour. We look around us, and thousand languages and dialects, expressing literatures, and ways of life. We predecessors, and find we can see only look forward in time, and find we can outward in space, and send symbols spacecraft, to explain who we are, in to know. Alongside this, there is the means of understanding ourselves and of the problems and tensions that arise 2010 : 1 ) 1. What is linguistics? Whatever we do, language is central to our underpins the study of every other discipline. insight into ourselves and a tool for the universe. Martians and dolphins, bonobos intelligent, cute, adept at social organization, and share our language, they don’t speak a fascinating object of study? Perhaps capturing the breath of human thought and and are awed by the variety of several expressing a multiplicity of world views, We look back at the thoughts of our only as far as language lets us see. We can plan only through language, we look symbols of communication along with our in case there is anyone there who wants importance we attach to language, as a and our society, and of resolving some arise from human interaction. (Crystal,

• HOMEWORK:

Read CHAPTER

textbook (Santana

and do the exercises

1 of the course

(Santana Lario ed., 2015 )

exercises.

Important concepts/ideas chapter 1 Santana Lario ed. (Author: Marta Falces Sierra) WHAT IS LINGUISTICS

• The scientific study systematic study of language
• Fields of interest in linguistics science: synchronic linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic stylistics, critical linguistics,
• Example: napkin and Important concepts/ideas chapter 1 Santana Lario ed. (Author: Marta Falces Sierra) LINGUISTICS: study of language, the language linguistics as an empirical synchronic linguistics, diachronic linguistics, neurolinguistics, linguistic criticism and linguistics, etc (see Table 1 ). and serviette

• PRESCRIPTION VS DESCRIPTION (P. 18
• LINGUISTIC LEVELS OF STUDY:

 Phonetics and phonology

 Morphology

 Syntax

 Semantics

 Pragmatics

PRESCRIPTION VS DESCRIPTION (P. 18-19) LEVELS OF STUDY:

phonology

GRAMMAR WITHIN LINGUISTICS:

• Grammar: morphology
• Grammatical units (or
• Hierarchy of units (ranskscale) p. 22
• Rankshift or subordination
• Grammatical units: distributional criteria THE SCOPE OF morphology and syntax (or units of grammar) (ranskscale): See Figure 1 , subordination formal, functional and