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These modules look at language on a number of different levels: focusing on how language works and how it is composed of different sub-systems; how we make and interpret meaning; how we communicate in speech and writing; and how we use language to signal our identity. Introductory (level 4) modules introduce the basics of language – what it is, what it does, and how it can be described. Tools for linguistic analysis are introduced and real examples of language are studied, either written or spoken. Level 5 and 6 modules are more advanced and explore some of the main applications of linguistics in more depth, choosing from a variety of subjects. Updated April 2014/PJW
Entry requirements:
GPA of 2.75 or above (out of 4.0) or equivalent.
Pre-requisites:
Previous academic study of English language/literature is useful for entry onto Level 4 modules.
Level 5 and 6 modules are progressively more advanced and will require more substantial previous in language and applied linguistics.
Taught at: Penrhyn Road campus.
KEY TO MODULE DESCRIPTORS
SUITABILITY OF MODULE FOR STUDENTS VISITING KU ON STUDY OPTION ____
1 Indicates module is suitable for students visiting KU on Study Option 1 (Whole Year)
2 Indicates module is suitable for students visiting KU on Study Option 2 (Autumn)
3 Indicates module is suitable for students visiting KU on Study Option 3 (Spring/Summer)
Notes:
1. Students enrolled on Study Option 1 are required to study the entire module.
2. Whilst the University makes every effort to ensure that this information is correct at the time of updating (April 2014), it cannot accept responsibility for omissions or subsequent changes. Module availability and content may be subject to change, as part of the University’s policy of continuous improvement and development.
MODULE CODE
TITLE SUITABILITY KEY
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LEVEL 4 (INTRODUCTORY)
EN4001 Introduction to English Language 1, 2, 3
EN4002 Introduction to Communication 1, 2, 3
LEVEL 5 (INTERMEDIATE)
EN5001 Sociolinguistics 1, 2, 3
EN5002 Psycholinguistics 1, 2, 3
EN5003 Language in Context 1, 2, 3
LEVEL 6 (ADVANCED)
EN6002 Narrative 1
EN6006 Meaning 1
EN6008 Language and Emotion 1
EN6009 Discourse and Social Media 1
LEVEL 4 (INTRODUCTORY)
Module Code: EN4001
Module Title: Introduction to English Language
Credits: Full year: 8 (US) 15 (ECTS); single semester: 4 (US) 7.5 (ECTS)
Level: 4
Prerequisites: Previous academic study of English language/literature is useful .
Suitability
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 1
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 2
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 3
Not open to Erasmus students as level 4.
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This module introduces students to the field starting with an overview of the historical development and world variations of English. From language with a small 'l', the module moves on to the study of Language with a big 'L' considering the properties that make it a unique medium of human communication and exploring its multifaceted relation to cognition. Students are initiated to the enquiry of language as a system and language as action, considering how speakers can produce and understand speech, how they can mean more than they say, how they ordinarily do things with language and fulfil a wide range of functions.
The main features of the module are (a) its focus on the description and analysis of language at different levels, namely phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics (b) its overview of the key principles in contemporary linguistic enquiry.
Autumn Semester:
Introduction to the Study of Language
The sounds of language 1 – phonetics
The sounds of language 1 – phonology
Words and their structure – morphology
Structure of words and sentences - syntax 1
Structure of heads and phrases – syntax 2
The meaning of language – semantics
Beyond words – pragmatics 1
Beyond words – pragmatics 2
Spring Semester:
Introduction: Speaking and writing.
Writing language
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What is English? Who Speaks English? What is Standard English?
Evolving English 1
Evolving English 2
Writing English
Language and Technology
Digital English
English as a global language
New Englishes
Teaching: Tutor-led lectures and interactive lectures
Assessment:
STUDY OPTION 1:
Take home test (50%); 1500-2000 word essay (50%)
STUDY OPTION 2: take home test (100%)
STUDY OPTION 3: 1,500 – 2000 word essay (100%)
Last updated: 01/09/14 PJW
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Module Code: EN4002
Module Title: Introduction to Communication
Credits: Full year: 8 (US) 15 (ECTS); single semester: 4 (US) 7.5 (ECTS)
Level: 4
Prerequisites: Previous academic study of English language/literature is useful.
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Suitability
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 1
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 2
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 3
Not open to Erasmus students as level 4.
Course Content:
This module introduces students to language as a tool for human communication drawing on linguistics and its related disciplines. The main features of the module are (a) its focus on the analysis of language use and meaning in context and (b) its concern with key issues in intercultural communication.
Students will study language as communication in its social and cultural contexts and gain an insight into the formation of meaning and social relationships. The module will initiate students to the key concepts and frameworks for describing and analysing discourse, (i.e. language above the sentence), with specific reference to meaning in context, talk in interaction, narrative practices and discourse strategies in intercultural encounters.
Autumn Semester:
What is communication? Human language and animal communication
Communication in a social context: Theories and models of communication
How conversations work: The unspoken “rules” of conversation
Communicating with language disorders: Non-verbal communication
Oral communication skills
Language, thought and culture: linguistic and communicative relativity
Written Communication Skills
Communicative competence: Adapting language use according to context
Negotiating relationships and activities: power and politeness
Multiculturalism and the study of intercultural communication Spring Semester:
Discourse in action: steps in doing discourse
Intercultural communication in everyday interaction: Schemas, scripts and frames
Intercultural communication in everyday interaction: Genres and narrative
Intercultural misunderstandings in everyday talk: Contextualization cues
Intercultural misunderstandings in institutional talk: Power and inequality
Intercultural discourse and communication in media and advertising
Intercultural discourse and communication in media and advertising
Intercultural communication and emotion Developing your interactional and intercultural competencies
Student Presentations
Teaching: Tutor-led lectures and interactive lectures.
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STUDY OPTION 1: Portfolio (100%):
a 2,000-word essay (50%)
a group presentation commenting on everyday, institutional or intercultural communication in terms of communication aspects discussed in the classroom (50%);
STUDY OPTION 2: portfolio
STUDY OPTION 3: portfolio
Last updated: 01/09/14 PJW
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LEVEL 5 (INTERMEDIATE)
Module Code: EN5001
Module Title: Sociolinguistics
Credits: Full year: 8 (US) 15 (ECTS); single semester: 4 (US) 7.5 (ECTS)
Level: 5
Prerequisites: Previous successful study in English language and communication
Suitability
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 1
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 2
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 3
Course Content:
In this module, students will engage critically with the complex relationship between language and society from a range of sociolinguistic perspectives. In the autumn semester, sessions introduce students to key sociolinguistic research and findings that shed light into how and why different speakers systematically vary their language use in relation to a range of social factors, such as class, social status, age, ethnicity, gender. Sessions then move on to explore how and why individual speakers alternate between styles and languages on different occasions drawing on sociolinguistic models of style and code-switching/code-mixing.
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In the spring semester, weekly sessions focus on the interaction between language and gender in mixed talk and single-sex talk in both private and public spheres. Lectures and seminar discussions will touch upon major debates regarding gender, sexuality and power in popular, media and scholarly discourses and will point to new directions in sociolinguistic research. Autumn Semester:
Introduction to sociolinguistics
Language variation and social class
Language style and audience design
Code-switching/code-mixing and identity
Qualitative research methods: ethnographic and ethical approaches to data collection
Transcriptions: representing spoken data
Quantitative research methods: questionnaires for a sociolinguistic study Spring Semester:
Introduction to the field of language and gender
Gender and Language variation
Gender and identity
Gender in same-sex interactions
Gender in mixed interactions
Women’s talk in the public sphere
Language and Sexuality
Debates in Language and Gender
Key directions in sociolinguistic research
Teaching: Weekly interactive lectures
Assessment:
STUDY OPTION 1:
2,500-3,000-word Practical Research Project (60%)
Presentation of the Practical Research Project (10%)
Unseen Exam (2 hours) (30%)
STUDY OPTION 2: 2000-word essay (choice of one from four)
STUDY OPTION 3: 2000-word essay (choice of one from four)
Last updated: 01/09/14 PJW
Study Option 1 = Whole Year
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Module Code: EN5002
Module Title: Psycholinguistics
Credits: Full year: 8 (US) 15 (ECTS); single semester: 4 (US) 7.5 (ECTS)
Level: 5
Prerequisites: Previous successful study in English language and communication.
Suitability
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 1
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 2
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 3
Course Content:
This module will appeal to students who are interested in developing their understanding of how language is perceived and processed. It focuses on first and second language acquisition and the relationship between language and cognition (debate might include questions concerning the relationship between language and thought, modularity of mind, Universal Grammar, etc.).
Students are encouraged to comprehend and explain the nature and relationship between first and second language acquisition/learning as well as first and second language learning processes, e.g. the critical period hypothesis and bilingualism or the differences between child and adult learners. The major strands of the module cover the underlying language systems and language processing; the course considers how children or adults acquire the various components of their native language, e.g. phonology, morphology, syntax and socio-pragmatic knowledge. Students examine psychological and linguistic theories of linguistic and cognitive development and review some empirical evidence of the nature and effects of input.
Students are expected to engage with the nature of researching language acquisition and the challenges this poses for researchers. Other languages apart from English will be used to highlight how language is represented in the mind of bilinguals. Students are encouraged to analyse and critique major theories and models in the light of their own learning experiences. The module is also aimed at giving students solid foundation of applied linguistics in which areas from psychology, cognition, computing and biology also enrich their understanding. The topics will cover linguistic, psychological as well as pedagogical perspectives.
Autumn Semester: Bilingualism and second language acquisition
Introducing Psycholinguistics
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Bilingual Acquisition 1 Bilingual Acquisition. Stages of child bilingual behaviour: phonological, lexical, and syntactical development patterns. Neural basis of bilingualism.
Bilingual Acquisition 2 Language processing in bilinguals. Bilingualism and cognitive development: polarisation in effects from early studies, analysis and models or language control.
Second language acquisition 1: Development patterns in L2 adults
Assignments explanation: language learning project or experiment.
Second language acquisition 2: Cognitive accounts of second language acquisition: Implicit and explicit knowledge, automatic and controlled processing.
The mental lexicon
Second language acquisition 3: The interplay between lexis and grammar
Second language acquisition 4: Individual differences: language aptitude and dyslexia
Second language acquisition 5: Complexity Theory and SLA.
Experimental research methods in Psycholinguistics researching language acquisition or doing experiments
Spring Semester: First language acquisition and language and the brain
Language development 1: The problem of language acquisition; rationalism and empiricism
Language development 2: How do they do it? The Innateness Hypothesis.
Language development 3: Acquisition as a biological process. Language as a biological process, properties that language shares with other biological processes – stages in development and critical periods (evidence from Genie etc.).
Language and the Brain 1: Evidence from pathologies. What happens when something goes wrong in the brain? Experimental evidence from research on
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deafness, aphasia, SLI, Williams Syndrome.
Language and the brain 2: Theory of mind and its role in communication (e.g. autism). The development of pragmatics, etc.)
Language and the Brain 3: The uniqueness of human language: experimental work with animal communication.
Teaching: lectures, teacher and student led seminars
Assessment:
STUDY OPTION 1:
report typically consisting of 2,000 words (50%), on either: a language learning project OR a word association experiment;
class seen test (50%)
STUDY OPTION 2 or 3: portfolio (100%).
Last updated: 01/09/14 PJW
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Module Code: EN5003
Module Title: Language in Context
Credits: 8 (US) 15 (ECTS)
Level: 5
Prerequisites: Previous successful study in English language and communication
Suitability
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 1
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 2
Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 3
Course Content:
This module explores the linguistic study of style and meaning in a range of contexts, such as spoken and written mediums, including natural conversation, literary and media texts. It brings together work from the fields of stylistics and pragmatics to consider how we use and understand language in use. The topics presented in this module focus on contextual meaning and its effects, exploring aspects of language and creativity, as well as key theories and frameworks in stylistics and pragmatics to understand how style and
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meaning are created and interpreted.
Autumn Semester:
Introducing Pragmatics
Introducing Inference
Grice’s Theory of Conversation
Grice: Questions, problems and criticisms
Relevance and cognition
Relevance and communication
Applying Relevance
Understanding Metaphor
Understanding Irony
Experimental Pragmatics
Spring Semester:
Introduction to language in literature: What is Stylistics?
Foregrounding grammar and lexis
Cohesion and coherence: making a text
Reading figures of speech: figurative language
Narrative, narration and point of view
Speech and thought presentation
Dialogue and discourse in plays
Multimodality and stylistics – reading and discussion
Media discourses: the stylistics of advertising
Teaching: One-hour keynote lectures and interactive lectures
Assessment:
STUDY OPTION 1: portfolio (100%):
A presentation of approximately 10 minutes words (20%)
Two essays of 1,500 words each (40% each)
STUDY OPTION 2: essay of 1500 words (choice of 1 from 8) STUDY OPTION 3:
In-class presentation of a chapter on an area of stylistics (20%)
Stylistic analysis of a literary text (80%)
Last updated: 01/09/14 PJW
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LEVEL 6 (ADVANCED)
Module Code: EN6002
Module Title: Narrative
Credits: Full year: 8 (US) 15 (ECTS); single semester: 4 (US) 7.5 (ECTS)
Level: 6
Prerequisites: Substantial previous study in English language and communication.
Suitability Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 1 only
Course Content:
This module looks at narrative story telling in both fictional and real life stories. We explore concepts within narratology to explore the theory of narrative, as a way to understand the nature, form and function of narratives. We will look at the common or universal characteristics of narrative storytelling as well as differences and find out how it is that we are able to comprehend, memorise and produce stories. We will look at narrative structure, characterisation, narration and disnarration, narrative beginnings, the narrator as witness, children's narratives and fairytales, and narratives in the media (e.g. newspapers, blogs) such as those following major world events.
Autumn Semester:
Introduction to Narrative: defining narrative and what makes a story; Narration and Disnarration: what does and does not happen.
Literary models of narrative: the Morphology of the Folktake, story grammars and schemas.
The surface of Narratives: time, character, plot.
Sociolinguistic model of narratives – Labov and Waletzky and oral narratives; Conversational Storytelling.
Children's stories: the fairy tale, wicked step-mothers and other traumas.
Narratives of trauma; narrator as witness.
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Spring Semester:
Narratives in the News
Narratives in the Media; narratives in advertising
Film viewing
Presentations & Reading
Teaching: Two-hour interactive lectures running on alternate weeks
Assessment:
STUDY OPTION 1:
Extended piece of writing (4000-5000 words) (60%).
One piece of practical work – 2000 words (30%)
An oral presentation (10%)
Last updated: 01/09/14 PJW
Study Option 1 = Whole Year Study Option 2 = Autumn Study Option 3 = Spring/summer Return to Top.
Module Code: EN6006
Module Title: Meaning
Credits: Full year: 8 (US) 15 (ECTS); single semester: 4 (US) 7.5 (ECTS)
Level: 6
Prerequisites: Substantial previous study in English language and communication
Suitability Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 1
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Course Content:
This module explores ideas from a wide range of disciplines and introduces students to some of the key concepts in the study of meaning. It begins by considering work in the philosophy of language on what it means to ‘mean’ something and moves on to the distinction between the context-dependent meaning inherent in language-in-use – the domain of pragmatics – and context-independent meaning – the domain of linguistic semantics. Students will consider how different linguistic elements interact with the discourse context to contribute to the communicative act, and we will also consider the role played by extra-linguistic aspects of communication such as facial expression, gesture and body language.
Teaching: Lectures and tutorials
Assessment:
STUDY OPTION 1:
Extended piece of writing
One piece of practical work
An oral presentation
Last updated: 01/09/14 PJW
Study Option 1 = Whole Year Study Option 2 = Autumn Study Option 3 = Spring/summer Return to Top.
Module Code: EN6008
Module Title: Language and Emotion
Credits: Full year: 8 (US) 15 (ECTS); single semester: 4 (US) 7.5 (ECTS)
Level: 6
Prerequisites: Substantial previous study in English language and communication
Suitability Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 1
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Course Content:
This module explores the culturally diverse forms and functions of emotion talk and discourse that pervade everyday social activities. We will consider anthropological, sociocultural and linguistic aspects of emotion employing analytical frameworks and methods that have emerged in the interdisciplinary field of sociolinguistics.
Topics covered include:
Definitions of emotion
Histories of emotion
Language, emotion and power
Language, emotion and the market
Researching language and emotion
Language has a heart: encoding affect in everyday talk
Language has a heart: encoding affect in everyday narrative
Autumn Semester:
Introduction to Language and Emotion
Emotion in multiple languages
Emotion and gender
Emotion and affect in grammar
Emotion and subjectivity in narrative
Researching language and emotion
Spring Semester:
Emotion in politics and the politics of emotion
New Developments in the field
Student presentations
Teaching:
Two-hour interactive lectures running on alternate weeks, one-to-one tutorials and two research and study skills sessions.
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STUDY OPTION 1:
Extended piece of writing (60%)
One piece of practical work (30%)
An oral presentation (10%)
Last updated: 01/09/14 PJW
Study Option 1 = Whole Year Study Option 2 = Autumn Return to TOP Study Option 3 = Spring/summer
Module Code: EN6009
Module Title: Discourse and Social Media
Credits: Full year: 8 (US) 15 (ECTS); single semester: 4 (US) 7.5 (ECTS)
Level: 6
Prerequisites: Substantial previous study in English language and communication
Suitability Suitable for students enrolled at KU for Study Option 1
Course Content:
This module will explore discourse aspects of social media in our globalising world, drawing on theories and methodologies developed in linguistics, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Students will have the opportunity to research language and communication in a range of social media, including social networking sites, such as Facebook, media sharing sites like YouTube and Flickr, wikis, and other sites of (micro)blogging, such as Twitter.
Topics covered include:
Introduction to Discourse and Social Media
Interacting Online
Online Genres
Researching Discourse and Social Media
Identities Online
Digital Emotion
Teaching:
Two-hour interactive lectures running on alternate weeks, one-to-one tutorials and two research and study skills sessions.
Assessment: STUDY OPTION 1: