LET020 - ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

The course introduces students to English linguistics from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Specific attention will be drawn to the frameworks of linguistic analysis, the history of the English language, the feminist perspective on the English language. Students are expected to acquire ground skills enabling them to the study of the English language and its main linguistic features. They will be able to examine a text from a phonological, morphological, syntactical, and lexical point of view. Students will also be expected to acquire basic methodological competences for linguistic analysis, also from a feminist perspective. Students must be able to process and relate the course contents in English. They are also expected to acquire basic specialized vocabulary for linguistic analysis.