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Describing and analysing language and communication

  • ATS1339
  • Clayton Second semester 2013 (Day)
    Clayton Second semester 2013 (Off-campus)
  • 6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
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This unit provides students with an introduction to theoretical and descriptive frameworks adopted in the analysis of language. You will be introduced to techniques for different levels of language analysis; key questions and theoretical and descriptive frameworks adopted in the analysis of language; and some of the applications of these theoretical tools. There is a description of speech sounds and their organization in linguistic systems, the structures of words and sentences and their meanings, the description and analysis of historical processes of language change over time. -- Course Website

Instructor: Anna Margetts



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