COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AÖD 5011 PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

German Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR KUTHAN KAHRAMANTÜRK

Offered to

German Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to enable the students to acquire the basic terms of language philosophy, the spectrum of language philosophy, the basic fields of research and achievements of language philosophy, to provide knowledge, skills, thought and awareness relating to language and the relationship between language and thought.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Ability to acquire the structural and functional characteristics of language, to recognize the importance and the power of word resp. language for the development of human mind.
2   2. Ability to explain the basic terms of linguistics and to compare their relations.
3   3. Ability to acquire the basic knowledge on phonetics and phonology, phonetics of German, phonetic script, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), phonetic script of German words, to write words in phonetic script
4   4. Ability to explain the basic terms of morphology, the classification and types of morpheme and to segment words in morpheme
5   5. Ability to acquire the basic terms and methods of structuralism
6   6. Ability to comprehend the development history of linguistics, to recognize the family of Indo-European and Germanic languages
7   7. Ability to explain the typological classification of languages

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The relationship between language and philosophy F. de Saussure and structuralism
2 History of Language Philosophy Semiotics and Language Philosophy
3 Wilhelm von Humboldt s view of language and world view Ludwig Wittgenstein and Language Philosophy I
4 Wilhelm von Humboldt s view of language and world view Ludwig Wittgenstein and Language Philosophy II
5 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the relation between language and thought I Final Exam
6 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the relation between language and thought II
7 Walter Porzig and view of language I
8 Course Overview, Course Evaluation, Midterm Exam
9 Walter Porzig and view of language II
10 The language theories of modern linguistics

Recomended or Required Reading

W.v. Humboldt: Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaus und ihren Einfluß auf die geistige Entwicklung des Menschengeschlechts. 1835
Walter Porzig: Das Wunder der Sprache. 1957
Benjamin Lee Whorf: Language, Thought, and Reality. 1964.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung 1920
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophische Untersuchungen. 1953
Metzler: Philosophie Lexikon. Eintrag Semiotik .
Metzler: Philosophie Lexikon. Eintrag Sprachphilosophie .
Cambridge Dil Ansiklopedisi (David Crystal), Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2010
Hadumod Bußmann: Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. 3. Auflage. Stuttgart: Kröner. 2002

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Multimedia Explanation, question and response, discussion, group work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

written exams

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

kuthan.kturk@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 2 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 92

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1325451
LO.2325451
LO.3325451
LO.4325451
LO.5325451
LO.6325451
LO.7325451

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