University Batna-2 Mostafa Benboulaid
Faculty of Letters and Foreign Languages
Department of English Language and Literature
Fiche Déscriptive du Module
Module : Linguistique
Niveau : Deuxième année
Unité d’enseignement : Unité Fondamentale
Crédit : 2 / Coefficient :1
Mode d’évaluation : 50 % CC + 50 % Examen
Objectives of the course
"A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language."
Noam Chomsky
Over the past thirty years, research in linguistics has led to a deeper understanding of language, and linguists have developed better analytic tools for describing the structure of words, phrases, and discourses – better theories of grammar. The scientific study of language, linguistics, has provided us with greater understanding of how languages are acquired, how they develop over time and space, what it means to be bilingual, how languages are similar to each other, and what accounts for their differences, among many other aspects of this uniquely human phenomenon.
Linguistics, to put it simply, is the study of languages, but in a scientific way. This means not just looking at the meaning of words in a language, but at how the language is formed, the contexts it is used in, and much more. Since it is the scientific study of languages, there are, of course, numerous schools of thought related to it : Atomism, Structuralism, Functionalism and Generativism.
At the end of the semester the student is expected to be able to :
- Understand what we mean by different approaches of Linguistics.
- Make the difference between the traditional approach and the modern approach of language study.
- Understand how people studied language in the past.
- Identify the different reasons behind the move from Atomism to Structuralium.
- Understand the modern approach of language study and its objectives.
Linguistics, to put it simply, is the study of languages, but in a scientific way. This means not just looking at the meaning of words in a language, but at how the language is formed, the contexts it is used in, and much more. Since it is the scientific study of languages, there are, of course, numerous schools of thought related to it : Atomism, Structuralism, Functionalism and Generativism.
At the end of the semester the student is expected to be able to :
- Understand what we mean by different approaches of Linguistics.
- Make the difference between the traditional approach and the modern approach of language study.
- Understand how people studied language in the past.
- Identify the different reasons behind the move from Atomism to Structuralium.
- Understand the modern approach of language study and its objectives.
- Teacher: KARIMA ROMANE