Introduction to Linguistics Objectives: 1. to give knowledge about language and certain languages 2. to give the ability to analyze language structure based on various views of language

Topics in this course include: 1. What is linguistics? 2. characteristics of language 3. phonological analysis 4. morphological analysis 5. syntactic analysis 6. semantic analysis 7. sociolinguistics 8. pragmatics 9. transformational grammar 10. functional grammar

Assessment 1. attendance to classes 2. participation in the class 3. assignments 4. mid-semester examination 5. end-of-semester examination

References 1. F. Dinneen, General Linguistics 2. R.H Robins, General Linguistics: an Introductory Survey 3. M.A.K Halliday, Introduction to Functional Grammar 4. G.N Leech, Principles of Pragmatics

Rules of Conduct 1. Punctuality is highly appreciated (15 minutes late is tolerable) 2. No T-shirt, no sandals, no smoking during the lecture 3. Basic requirement for sitting the examination is 75% attendance to classes 4. Good behaviour is more important than high intelligence