The purpose of this course is to introduce linguistics and help students understand the scientific aspect of language. The focused subjects are as follows: basic concepts of linguistic analysis, raising linguistic awareness, error analysis, case study, the nature, structure and use of language via comparative analysis of native language and foreign language; linguistic components as a system; competence and performance; microlinguistics and macrolinguistics; language universals; linguistic creativity; arbitrariness; sign languages and artificial languages; animal communication systems; language and brain, lateralization and handedness; evolution of language; processing of language; research on language use and language disorders (ex. dichotic listening, split-brain patients, WADA test); phonetics (acoustic, articulatory and auditory phonetics), speech organs, phone, phoneme, vowels and consonants, diphtongs, manner and place of articulation, IPA (international phonetic alphabet); phonology, sounds, phonological processes such as assimilation, dissimilation, linking; phonetic classes; prosody, stress, tone, pitch, intonation; semantics, semantic analysis, semantic components and features, sense, reference, and coreference.
