COURSE INFORMATION PACKAGE · LFR212

Linguistics and Interdiscipl inariy II

Compulsory Open to Erasmus+ exchange students
ECTS
5
Local Credit
3
Theory + Practice + Lab
3 + 0 + 0
Course Level
Bachelor Degree
Prerequisites
-
Semester
4
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Content Weekly Contents Assessment System
Course Instructor(s)
Yusuf Mertcan ALTINSOY

Content

Objective

To provide students with a detailed overview of the various fields of language sciences, beyond general linguistics, emphasizing the diversity of theories and methodologies.
To increase the knowledge of fields within applied linguistics by highlighting their diversity.
To discuss the growing role of interdisciplinarity in the social sciences in recent years, and thus within the language sciences.
To enable students to acquire a richer theoretical and methodological understanding of linguistics.

Course Content

Theoretical and practical course content is designed to provide a detailed explanation of various fields within the language sciences, such as psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language acquisition, generative linguistics, sociolinguistics, and typology; to highlight their practical implications; and to reinforce students’ knowledge through oral presentations and other assignments.

Course Learning Outcomes

By drawing on an interdisciplinary approach, the aim is to highlight the complementary nature of the fields mentioned above and to understand how research in this area enables us to describe and analyze the concepts of language.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Lecture notes, slides, articles, books, oral presentations, and hands-on survey research.

Weekly Contents

Theory Topics
Week Weekly Contents
1 Introduction to sociolinguistics
2 Labov and language insecurity
3 Subsrate and superstrate
4 Methodology
5 Plurilinguism
6 Diglossie
7 Epilinguistic discourse
8 Language Ideologies
9 Introduction to typology
10 Cognitif fonctionning of time and space
11 Morphological diversity of languages and their fonctionning
12 Linguistic change
13 Language contact
14 Limits of language families

Assessment System

Contribution to Overall Grade
Activities Number Contribution
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade 1 50
Contribution of final exam to overall grade 1 50
Total 2 100
In-Term Studies
Activities Number Contribution
Assignments 0 0
Presentation 0 0
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) 0 0
Project 0 0
Laboratory 0 0
Other Applications 0 0
Quiz 0 0
Term Paper/ Project 1 50
Portfolio Study 0 0
Reports 0 0
Learning Diary 0 0
Thesis/ Project 0 0
Seminar 0 0
Other 0 0
Make-up 0 0
Total 1 50