English - Language Studies, Intermediate Course

Aim

After completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• apply Linguistic theories and methods in the analysis of linguistic data
• identify and phonetically describe selected social and geographical varieties of English
• write a short academic, investigative essay

Content

One part of the course takes up certain central aspects of modern linguistics, such as semantics, pragmatics, interaction analysis and ecolinguistics. The other part of the course, Varieties of English, examines several varieties which have been selected both on the basis of their importance and their differing characteristics, and students learn how to describe these characteristics both orally and in writing.