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Linguistics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:07
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_003 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inta Urbanoviča | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge and skills of the Latvian language acquired at the secondary school. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The aim of the course is to deepen students' knowledge of the basic issues of linguistics, to help them focus better on theoretical resources, and to strengthen the skills of segmenting and analyzing different language units so that a student can perform a professional and research activity, and to independently outline his or her learning in the selected specialty. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction. Course's objective and requirements . | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Linguistics and language. Science of language, its place in the system of sciences. Issues of linguistics. History of linguistics. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Understanding of language. Human language and animal communication. Anthropogenesis. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Language functions. Language and thinking. Linguistic universals. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Structure of language: levels, the corresponding units; interlevel, extralevel phenomena. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Theories of lingua genesis. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Language development. Language contacts. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Language acquisition. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Language and society. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Development of writing systems. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 11 | Global linguistic diversity. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Types of language classification. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Student makes two presentations of a specific issue of linguistics, including consulting theoretical handbooks and online resources, individual work with dictionaries to refine terminology of linguistics. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1) Two reports and presentations about problems of linguistics (25 + 25% of final assessment); 2) Written exam (50% of final assessment). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: • know the functions of language; • understand the levels of language and their characteristic units; • know the most popular theories of lingua genesis; • identify the most important stages of writing; • know the types of language classification. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: • define which function of language a text is suitable for; • classify units of language and characterize them by specific features; • classify world languages according to various features. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to distinguish and analyse units of language, use the most important terms of linguistics and know the main issues of linguistics. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Baltiņš, Māris, Druviete, Ina (2017). Ceļavējš cilvēku ciltij: Valoda sabiedrībā. Rīga: Latviešu valodas aģentūra. | ||||||||
| 2 | Veisbergs, Andrejs (red.) (2013). Latviešu valoda. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Fāters, Heincs. (2010). Ievads valodniecībā. Rīga: Zinātne. | ||||||||
| 2 | Nītiņa, Daina, Grigorjevs, Juris (red.). (2015). Latviešu valodas gramatika. Rīga: LU Latviešu valodas institūts. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Crystal, David. (2008). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Sixth edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | ||||||||
| 2 | Nacionālā enciklopēdija. Pieejams tiešsaistē: Nacionālā enciklopēdija - Lietpratēju veidots augstticams saturs (enciklopedija.lv) | ||||||||
| 3 | Skujiņa, Valentīna (red.) (2007). Valodniecības pamatterminu skaidrojošā vārdnīca. Rīga: LU Latviešu valodas institūts. | ||||||||
