English 611

• Terminology in Linguistics and • Literature for Communication

• Instructor: Uthai Piromruen, Ph.D.• Associate Professor

CEN 6102First Session

Terminolology in Linguistics and Literature for Communication

Instructor: Uthai Piromruen, Ph.D.Associate Professor

First Session

• Orientation to the Course• Introduction to Language & Linguistics• 1. Definition of Language• 2. The origins of language• 3. Universal properties of language• 4. Animals & human language• 5. The diversity of linguistics

Orientation to the Course• 1. Course title: English 611: Terminology in Linguistics

and Literature for Communication• 2. Class schedule: Sunday 1-4 pm.• 3. Room: POTDUANG, Humanities Building #1• 4. Instructor: Uthai Piromruen, Ph.D.• Associate professor• 5. Weekly Assignments: Group/individual study

project/questions• 6. Evaluation: Written Test:Midterm 30% Final 30%,

Group/individual Report 30%, Attendance 10%, Grade: S, U: S=Satisfactory, U=Unsatisfactory

Orientation to the Course• 1. Course title: CEN 6102 : Terminology in Linguistics

and Literature for Communication• 2. Class schedule: Saturday 1-4 pm.• 3. Room: AV, HUMBuilding N0#1.• 4. Instructor: Uthai Piromruen, Ph.D.• Associate professor• 5. Weekly Assignments: Group/individual study

project/questions• 6. Evaluation: Written Test:Midterm 30% Final 30%,

Group/individual Report 30%, Attendance 10%, Grade: S, U: S=Satisfactory, U=Unsatisfactory

Study Project/Question #1

How to set up your project

• Select the topic for your study project based on the topics presented in this first session.

• Organize a group of three students.• Choose your group leaders and members.• Write down the topic you selected for your

group.• Search for more new information from the

sources.

Questions # 1

• 1. Why human languages are so much different from one another?

• 2. Why words can have many meanings?• -List some of them.• 3. Can animals learn a human language?• 4. What branches of linguistics are

influencial in today’s living?

1.Introduction to Language & Linguistics

Definition of Language

• “A finite system of elements and principles that make it possible for speakers to construct sentences to do particular communicative

jobs” (Fasold & Connor-Linton, 2006. p. 9, adapted

from Finegan and Besner (1989).

2. The origins of language• 1. The divine source• 2. The natural-sound source• 3. The oral gesture source• 4. Glossogenetics• 5. Physical adaptation: the human teeth,

lips, mouth and tongue, the human larynx, pharynx, the human brain is lateralized

• 6. Interactons and transactions

3. Universal properties of language

• Modularity• Constituency and recursion• Discreteness• Productivity• Arbitariness• Reliance on content• Variability• (Fasold and Connor-Linton, 2006, pp.1-7)

5. The Diversity of Linguistics

1.6 What is Linguistics?

• Linguistics—A scientific study of language.• -The systematic inquiry into human

language—into its structures and uses and the relationship between them, as well as into the development and acquisition of language

The scope of linguistics

• Includes both language structure (and the grammatical competence underlying it)

• And language use (and its underlying Communicative competence)

The branches of linguistics.

• Historically, the central focus of language study has been grammar—patterns of speech sounds, word structure, sentence formation, and meaning.

• More recently, attention has also focused on the relationship between expression and meaning, and context and interpretation, which is called Pragmatics

Other branches of Linguistics

• Language variation across speech communication or within a single community, across time and across situations of use. It seeks two kinds of explanation—cognitive ones—the human language-processing and the social ones--social interaction and the organization of societies

The third group of linguists

• Applies the findings of the discipline to real-world problems in Educational matters, to the acquisition of literacy (reading and writing) and of second languages and foreign languages; in clinical matters, to understanding aspects of Alzheimer’s disease and aphasia; in forensic settings, to analyze the conversation for evidence of conspiracy and others for legal matters, in language policies for cross-cultural communication

Linguistcs Disciplines

• Theoretical Linguistics:• -Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax,• Semantics, Language acquisition, • Applied Linguistics:• -Psycholinguistics• -Sociolinguistics• -Neurolinguistics• -Anthropological linguistics• -Historical linguistics• -Pragmatics• -Computational linguistics

Questions # 2The sounds of language

• 1. What is articulatory phonetics?• 2. How are speech sounds made?• 3. How many different sounds do languages

use?• 4. How does sound travel through the air?• 5. How is it registered by the ears?• 6. How can we measure speech?