Introduction to Linguistics
The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the key subject areas and
terminology of linguistics, to raise their awareness of the methods of linguistic analysis, to
introduce students to the range of fundamental ideas and problems of contemporary linguistics.
The course objectives are to review the status of linguistics as a science, to identify its
relationship to other sciences, to analyze the philosophical issues related to language as an object
of scientific study, to describe the basic forms of language existence, to describe language as a
system of signs, to highlight the main range of problems associated with defining language units
of different levels, and to describe these units; to consider the problems related to the
classification of languages and the history of writing.
Instructors: Romanova, Tatyana V.; Krylova Lyubov K.; Lavrova, Anna A
Credit points: 3
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Language: Russian
Level: Bachelor
Academic hours: 48
Syllabus
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The Science of Linguistics
Territorial and Social Differentiation of Language. Literary Language.
Language as a System. Language vs. Speech.
The Lexical System.
The Phonetical System.
Grammar.
Language Classification.
Writing. Writing Systems and Orthography.
Readings
1. Nemchenko V.N. Introduction to Linguistics. Moscow, Drofa. 2008 (Russian)
2. Kamchatnov A.M., Nikolina N.A. Introduction to Linguistics. A workbook. Moscow,
Flinta-Nauka. 2011 (Russian)