Overview

Units

• Unit 1: Introduction: linguistics and other approaches to language
• Unit 2: Phonetics and phonology - the sounds of speech
• Unit 3: Morphology and word-formation - the structure of the word
• Unit 4: Syntax I/ general principles - the structure of the clause
• Unit 5: Syntax II/ fundamentals of English grammar
• Unit 6: Semantics, lexicology and dictionaries
• Unit 7: Pragmatics and discourse analysis
• Unit 8: Language teaching, applied linguistics, translation studies
• Unit 9: A pluricentric language - standard Englishes around the world
• Unit 10: Dialectology - regional variation in English
• Unit 11: Language in the city - social and ethnic variation, multilingualism
• Unit 12: Language change and the history of English
• Unit 13: Past masters, current trends - theorising linguistics for students of English
• Unit 14: Linguistics and the public - language myths, language politics, language planning and language rights

Extra materials

• Unit 2: Phonetics and phonology
  - PRAAT screenshot: pdf-file
  - Miriam Makeba's "Click Song" at www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU
• Unit 9: Standard Englishes around the world
  Listen to sound files of Standard Englishes around the world:
  - The English Language Listening Lab Online at www.elllo.org
  - The International Dialects of English Archive at http://web.ku.edu/idea/
  - Find local radio stations all over the world at www.radiotime.com
  - Standard English with a Scottish accent: audio file
  - Jamaican English: "Curry Goat Birthday Party" from the Steve Harvey Morning Show Phone at www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZrholt_dQo
  - Nigerian English: News from a Nigerian radio station: audio file
  - South African English: News from a Cape Town radio station: audio file
  
• Unit 10: Regional variation in English
  - "Soft drink" in American English: pdf-file
  - The International Dialects of English Archive at http://web.ku.edu/idea/
  - "Sounds Familiar?" Accents and Dialects of the UK at www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html
  - BBC Voices at www.bbc.co.uk/voices/
  - British Library Sound Archive at www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/
  
• Unit 11: Language in the city
  Listen to sound files of British urban dialects:
  - BBC Voices at www.bbc.co.uk/voices/
  - British Library Sound Archive at www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/
  Newspaper articles about British urban dialects:
  - "Its all Kent and Dover for Cockney"
  - "Geordie dialect gannin out of fashion"
  On African-American Vernacular English:
  - William A. Kretzschmar's article about the intellectual history of Ebonics in English World-Wide 29/1 (2008), 70-95
• Unit 12: Language change and the history of English
  - The development of English: the BBC timeline at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_ages_english.shtml
  - Audio files of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English: "The Parable of the Prodigal Son"
  - A History of the English Language: A useful website with text materials and a timeline of external events at http://www.historyofenglish.net/
• The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights
• List of English-language corpora
• Linguistics in the digital age - some useful hints and suggestions
• The International Phonetic Alphabet: IPA fonts