Odsjek za anglistiku

This course is designed to introduce you to phonetics and phonology and the basics of the English sound system
We will cover the following topics:
- fundamentals of phonetics and phonology
- articulatory (and acoustic) phonetics
- English vowels and consonants
- phonemic and phonetic transcription
- prosodic phonology
- pronunciation varieties of English

How do words mean? How do we find them when we need them, and how do we interpret them when we hear them? And how do we know when to understand them literally, and when to 'shift' meaning from literal to contextually implied? Where, and what is meaning? These are just some of the questions that we will adress in this course.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the key concepts and problems in semantics and pragmatics, and enable them to deal with the problem of meaning in their own (research) work.

The course offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods in the analysis of natural language meaning through a survey of four major current approaches and their findings: philosophical semantics, descriptive (traditional) semantics, cognitive semantics, and pragmatics. It should help students gain a better grasp of the relation between meaning and thought (concept), and ultimately help them tackle issues related to meaning both in intra- and crosslinguistic work.

This course aims to:

• introduce you to fundamental concepts, problems, and methods in contemporary Discourse Analysis (whether seen as a sub-discipline of applied linguistics, or as a method of describing language in use and in its social context)
• develop your critical language awareness and the skills and affinities to study and analyse various types of discourse