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Grammar and Meaning - LING218
Human language is about meaning and communication. It shapes us as individuals and as members of our various social networks and communities. Grammatical structures and functions are fundamental to language, but only for the ways they produce meaning in social context. This course will introduce you to the relationship of grammar and meaning, through understanding the three functions of language: the ideational function - how we use language to construe our experience of the world around us and inside us interpersonal function - how we enact our diverse social relationships through language textual function - how we organise our language into coherent text in the many different contexts in which we interact. The analysis you will learn about in this unit is used in many different fields of study, including computational linguistics, translation, literary studies, child language development, political and media discourse, the language of health professionals, the language of education, etc. This is a course for people who love language, or who understand that language is important to all aspects of human life. This course will enable you to analyse your own language, making you a more analytical language user.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in Session 1, North Ryde E1 - Evening; Offered in Session 1, North Ryde |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Annabelle Lukin |
| Prerequisites: |
LING109(P) or LING110(P) or LING120(P) or admission to BEd(TESOL) |
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| NCCW(s): | LING211 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Linguistics Faculty of Human Sciences |
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