Notes regarding credits...

This course consists of 40 hours of instruction. However, students may earn 45 hours by attending supplemental sessions and completing additional coursework. Please check with your home university to find out whether you need 40 or 45 hours to earn course equivalents.

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

1. Introduction

This course is designed to familiarize the students with the fundamental topics that are posed by linguistics as a science of language.

During the course, we will learn that human language is a complex and fascinating system, in constant evolution.

In the first part of the course, we will study some central aspects of language as a system and its particularities as a means of social communication. We will define the units of the linguistic system and we will become familiar with the terminology necessary to eliminate impediments in the study of linguistics and in the learning of languages.

In the second part of the course, we will approach topics related to the linguistic diversity of our world. We will learn how languages live, how they are constructed, how and why they change, how they are related, but also how and why they disappear. We will enter into the world of linguistic universals and we will analyze the relation between language and world-view. We will also speak of the dignity of languages and the prejudices and topics that exist about some of them. We will briefly review the evolution of linguistics and its methods.

2. Program

1.Communication. Verbal and non-verbal communication. Factors affecting linguistic communication.

2.Communicative intention. The functions of language.

3.Signs: their classes. The sciences which study signs. Linguistic signs: structure and characteristics.
4.Language as system. Phonic, morphosyntactic, and lexical level.

5.Varieties of language: geographic, social, and functional.

6.The diversity of language. Linguistic families and the criteria of their classification.

7.Linguistic typology. Typological classification. Typology and linguistic change.

8.Linguistic universals. Its types.

9.Language and world view.

10.The dignity of languages. Prejudices toward languages.

11.Linguistics, its evolution, and methods.

3. Activities

The numerous and varied oral and written activities that will be done as much in class as at home will constitute an essential part of the course. The debates over the most polemic issues in the topics we are studying will occupy a special place.

4. Evaluation

The evaluation of the student’s work will be made up of three parts: a final exam (45%), a partial exam in the middle of the course (20%), attendance, active participation, and exercises and activities both for class and to be done at home (35%).

5. Bibliography

FERNÁNDEZ PÉREZ, M., Introducción a la lingüística. Dimensiones del lenguaje y vías de estudio, Barcelona, Ariel,1999.

ČERNY, J., Introducción al estudio de la lengua, Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura, 2001.
KRISTEVA, J., El lenguaje, ese desconocido. Introducción a la lingüística, Madrid, Fundamentos, 1987.
LUQUE DURÁN, J. de D., Aspectos universales y particulares del léxico de las lenguas del mundo, Granada, Granada Lingvistica, Método Ediciones, 2001.
LUQUE DURÁN, J. de D., y MANJ�"N POZAS, F. J., Introducción a la historia de la tipología lingüística, Granada, Granada Lingvistica, Método Ediciones, 2001.
MARCOS MARÍN, F., Introducción a la Lingüística. Historia y modelos, Madrid, Síntesis,1990.
MORENO CABRERA, J. C., La dignidad e igualdad de las lenguas. Crítica de la discriminación lingüística, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2000.
Moreno Cabrera, J. C. El universo de las lenguas. Clasificación, denominación, situación, tipología, historia y bibliografía de las lenguas, Madrid, Castalia, 2003.
MORENO CABRERA, J. C., Introducción a la lingüística. Enfoque tipológico y universalista, Madrid, Síntesis, 2004.
PLUNGJAN, V., Počemu jazyki takie raznye?, Moskva, 1996, Russkie slovari.
RADFORD, A., ATKINSON, M., BRITAIN, D., CLASHEN, H. y SPENCER, A., Introducción a la Lingüística, Madrid, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
TUS�"N VALLS, J. Introducción a la lingüística, Barcelona, Columna, 1994.

DICCIONARIOS DE LINGÜÍSTICA
ABAD, F. Diccionario de lingüística de la escuela española actual, Madrid, Gredos, 1986.
Alcaraz Varó, E., y Martínez Linares, M. A., Diccionario de lingüística moderna, Barcelona, Ariel, 1997.
Cerdá, R. (coord.), Diccionario de Lingüística, Madrid, Anaya, 1986.
LÁZARO CARRETER, F., Diccionario de términos filológicos, Madrid, Gredos, 1987.
LEWANDOWSKI, T., Diccionario de Lingüística, Madrid, Cátedra, 1982.
MORENO CABRERA, J. C., Diccionario de Lingüística neológico y multilingüe, Madrid, Síntesis,1998.