Language is a network of choices available to speakers. Those choices arise in specific cultural contexts, and the choices themselves are most usefully pictured as grouped into interrelated systems (choices that depend on each other more than they depend on choices elsewhere across the network). The unit elaborates the major systems of meaning making that have emerged in English grammar; furthermore, it relates these major systems to choices at the strata above grammar – for example, logical argument at the semantics, and different fields and actions at context. The practical outcomes of the unit include: the drawing and evaluation of linguistic networks; the application of networks to... -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor David Butt
Prerequisites: 6cp at 200 level including (LING211(P) or LING218(P))