Applied Linguistics and Grammar - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324-C
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • Recognise applied linguistics , advanced grammatical structures and their application
  • Develop linguistic competence
  • Hone writing skills through the correct use of grammatical structures

 

Course Outcomes -

The students will:

  • Create a theoretical understanding of the components of language
  • Acquire knowledge of linguistic theory and the core areas of language-analysis
  • Recognise linguistic and grammatical structures of the English language
  • Develop skills to edit, analyze and compose a cohesive and coherent document

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Language and Communication : Human and Non-human communication; Verbal and Non-verbal  communication

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Language Change and Variation : Language families; language change; language, mind and society

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Word Classes, Clause Elements and Types

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrases, Prepositional Phrases and Adverbial Phrases

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

The Complex and Compound Sentence, The Verb and its Complementation

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Aichison, Jean. Linguistics. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.

Akmajian, Adrai, R.A. Demers, and R.M. Harnish .Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication.2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 1991.

Coulthard, Malcolm. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. 2nd ed. Routledge, 1996.

Harold, Parmer, F.G. Blandford, and Roger Kingdon. Grammar for English Words. 6th. ed. W. Heffer& Sons, 1970.

Leech, Geoffery. English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction. Macmillan, 1990.

Littlewood, William. Communicative Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. Penguin, 1994.

Randolph,Quirk, and Sydney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Orient Longman, 1973.

Richards, Jack C. and Theodore Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. 2nded.Cambridge University Press, 2001. 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022