Course description
Specialisation Requirements:
* 4 elective subjects (50 points)
Compulsory subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
175-014 Phonetics
This subject involves the study of the sound distinctions occurring in human languages, such as basic articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics. Students should develop skills in perceiving, articulating, and transcribing speech sounds. Students ... Semester 1 12.50
175-015 Syntax
This subject is an introduction to basic concepts and methods of syntactic analysis and description. Emphasis is on practical analysis and description of a wide range of phenomena from a variety of languages. Students should become familiar with topi... Semester 2 12.50
Elective subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
175-009 First Language Acquisition
This subject is an overview of some principal issues in first language acquisition, including children's language development (from pre-speech onwards), grammatical, semantic and pragmatic development, and the continued development of language t... Semester 1 12.50
175-010 Second Language Learning and Teaching
This subject will examine a range of theoretical models of second language acquisition, including Universal Grammar, interlanguage, the input hypothesis, and the interaction hypothesis. Individual factors including age, aptitude, motivation and indiv... Semester 2 12.50
175-007 Phonology
This subject is an introduction to descriptive and theoretical approaches to the analysis of sound systems across languages; and different approaches to phonology, training in formal phonological analysis, and the development of phonological theory u... Semester 2 12.50
175-019 Language, Society and Culture
This subject examines how social and cultural factors influence language, and the role language plays in structuring and representing social categories across cultures. It examines how culture and language shape each other: how language represents an... Semester 2 12.50
175-016 Semantics
This subject is an introduction to the study of meaning, looking at the main linguistic approaches to the study of meaning, techniques of semantic analysis and argumentation, and problems of accounting for some selected areas of linguistic meaning. T... Semester 1 12.50
175-200 Language and Media
This subject examines the role of language in media texts using approaches developed through the field of linguistics and applied linguistics. Using digitised video clips, the subject explores the relationships between aural and visual elements in me... Semester 1 12.50
175-202 Computer Mediated Communication
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
175-212 Language and Identity
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
119-200 Language and Society in Europe
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
175-017 Historical Linguistics
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
175-018 Language in Aboriginal Australia
This subject develops an appreciation of the role of language in Aboriginal Australia, traditionally and today. On completion of the subject, students should have a general knowledge of the linguistic features which characterise Australian Aboriginal... Semester 1 12.50
175-021 Grammar of English
This subject is a detailed examination of the major elements of English grammar using principles of linguistic analysis. Students learn to identify and describe the main morphological and syntactic constructions in English including parts of speech; ... Semester 1 12.50
175-213 Morphology
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
175-305 Exploring Linguistic Diversity
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
175-011 Discourse & Pragmatics
This subject involves the study of language from pragmatic and discourse analytic perspectives. It will include topics such as: the collection and transcription of spoken language data; speech act theory, conversational implicature, deixis and perspe... Semester 2 12.50
175-105 The Secret Life of Language
Have you ever wondered how language actually works? Or how it can be that a 6 year-old child can know more about their native language than the most sophisticated computers? This subject is a practical introduction to the nature of human language whi... Semester 1 12.50
175-108 Intercultural Communication
This subject involves the main components of communicative events across cultures, the main linguistic approaches to analysing them, how they vary in a range of cultures from around the world, and the difficulties and misunderstandings these differen... Semester 2 12.50
