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  • Module: Linguistics

    Level: Second year  (L2)

    Academic year: 2021-2022

    Coefficient: 1

    Duration: 6 months - 1 session per week

    Assessment methods: Test, project evaluation & formal examinations

    Location: Faculty of foreign languages, khemis Miliana university, rooms 7 & 9.

    Teacher: Hamza Cherifi

    Degree: PhD in Applied Linguistics

    Contact infos: cherifi-hamza@hotmail.fr/h.cherifi@univ-dbkm.dz, 0776194476.

    https://dbkm.academia.edu/CherifiHamza

     https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hamza_Cherifi?ev=hdr_xprf&_sg=B49-_YRpECqoU_YNjBoRreSm26p07eps31yZzFP4kGeBSRInsb__Q9mCrO44d8RZdyR0KBAucr1SMraN_X1rfY1W


  • Course Objectives

    The  course  seeks  to  attain  the  following  objectives: 1.  Familiarizing  students  with  the  principles  and  guiding  both  the  inception  and operation  of  Modern  Linguistics.    To  achieve  this  goal,  students  are  drawn  to  make  a contrast  between  Modern  Linguistics  and  Historical  Linguistics. 2.  Getting  students  to  grasp  the  concerns  and  functioning  of  phonetics,  phonology, morphology  and  syntax.  A  clear-cut  distinction  between  these  mechanisms  is  also targeted. 3.  Getting  student  disentangle  the  scope  and  functioning  of  semantics  as  a  distinct branch  of  linguistics.   

  • Table of Content

    1.The Scope  of  Modern Linguistics

    2.The Sign as  Shape  and Sound 

    3.Semantics

  • Prior Acquirements

    The  course  builds  on  the  following  acquirements  students  are  presumed  to  have  attained  in their  firs  year  linguistics  course: 1.  Linguistics  as  a  discipline 2.  What  linguistics  is  not 3.  Features  of  human  language 4.  Origin  of  language 

  • Chapter One: The Scope of Modern Linguistics

    This chapter aims at familiarizing students with the concerns and scope of Modern Linguistics as distict from the diachronic  practices held to characterize Historical Linguistics. In so doing, the chapter traces the inception of linguistics, locating the disciplinary concern with linguistics in cultural traditions immersed in antiquities. Subsequently, the chapter presents the convictions thriving in Historical Linguistics, namely the pervasive notion of  as well as the methods depoyed to recover earliest forms of language. Then the a shift in the concern in language is discussed and highlighted, paving the way to the concepts making up Saussurian Linguistics.

  • Chapter two: The sign as Shape and Sound

    Now that Historical Linguistics is singled out, subsequent frameworks would come into place.  This overview chapter offers  a brief discussions of the branches of linguistics corresponding either the signifier (phonetics, phonology, morphology,  & syntax or the   signified (semantics & pragmatics. More specifically, the chapter deals with the branches that fall into the Saussure’s signifier, in this sense phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax, all representing the signifier as it composed of sound and shape.

    Goal: Students are expected to understand the concern and functioning of phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax. A clear-cut distinction between these mechanisms is also targeted.


  • Chapter three: Semantics


    The chapter focuses on the nature and functioning of semantics as an identifiable branch in the overall study of language. The Chapter examines the concern of semantics and lays out the different conceptions and fundamentals characterizing the enterprise, namely in contrast with Pragmatics. We shall also discuss the relevance of semantics in the act of dictionary making. In doing so, the chapter discusses and illustrates the relations holdingt between words, culminating in synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, etc.   


    Aim: Students are expected to disentangle the scope and functioning of semantics as a distinct branch of linguistics