By the end of this course students will be able to acquire background knowledge about key concepts related the study field.

Course Outline
Introduction to language and linguistics
- Why study language?
- What is language (its origin, definition and characteristics?)
- Language vs. a language
-Properties of the Human Language
- Animal communication vs. Human Language
- Linguistics as a scientific study
- Modern linguistics vs. traditional grammar 
Required Reading

Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933. Language. New York: Henry Holt.

Crystal, David. 1971. Linguistics. Baltimore: Penguin Books. 

Dinneen, Francis P. 1967. An introduction to general linguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 

Hymes, Dell (editor). 1968. “Linguistics--I. The field.”International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.Volume 9. 

Robins, R. H. 1964. General linguistics: An introductory survey. London: Longmans. 

Sapir, Edward. 1921. Language. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company. 

deSausaure, Ferdinand. 1949. Cours de linguistique générale. Paris: Payot. 

Center for Applied Linguistics. 1974. Dictionary catalog of the library of the Center for Applied Linguistics. Boston: G. K. Hall. 

Allen, Harold B. 1966. Linguistics and English linguistics. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. 

Reinecke, John E. (compiler). 1975. A bibliography of pidgin and creole languages. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii. 

Verschueren, Jef. 1978. Pragmatics: An annotated bibliography. Amsterdam: John Benjamins