COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TDE 2035 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Turkish Language and Literature

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR CAFER ŞEN

Offered to

Turkish Language and Literature

Course Objective

To ensure the students understand what linguistics is, to teach the students which subjects are studied under the name of linguistics and the terminology of linguistics.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the field of linguistics and other including subject, to use its terminology
2   to describe the universal features of languages and Turkish in terms of linguistics.
3   To keep up with the theoretical and applied studies in the field of linguistics, to comment on them and make some suggestions about studies
4   To determine the place of linguistics among the other sciences.
5   To know variant linguistics schools: Prague, Copenhagen Linguistics School, American Constructivism, Russian Formalists etc.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is language Difference among language, langage and speech
2 What is linguistics The place of linguistics among other science.
3 Ferdinand de Saussure and contemporary linguistics.
4 Approaches to diachronic and synchronic language studies.
5 The features of the human language and double articulation.
6 Linguistics and literature studies.
7 Midterm
8 The functions of written communication
9 The functions of written communication
10 Constructivism
11 Chomsky and Generative Grammar
12 Pragmatics
13 Utterance Theory
14 Revision
15 Revision
16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Ana Kaynaklar:
AKSAN, Doğan (2004) Dilbilim ve Türkçe Yazıları, Istanbul: Multilingual Yayınları.
AYDIN, Mehmet (2014) Dilbilim El Kitabı, Istanbul: Akademik kitaplar
SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de (2001) Genel Dilbilim Dersleri, Çeviren: Berke Vardar, Istanbul: Multilingual Yayınları

Yardımcı Kaynaklar:
CRYSTAL, David (2010) Cambridge Dil Ansiklopedisi, 2. Baskı, Çeviren: Kurul, Bursa: Uludağ Üniversitesi Yayınları
GÜNAY, V. Doğan (2013) Dil ve Iletişim, 2. Baskı, Istanbul: Papatya Yayınları.
KIRAN, Zeynel & Ayşe KIRAN (2014) Dilbilime Giriş, Ankara: Seçkin Yayıncılık.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

face to face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 5 3 15
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 5 2 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.121
LO.223
LO.33
LO.44
LO.53

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