About This Course
To instill in the students an in-depth knowledge of linguistics as a discipline along with its history, branches, scope, and domains.
To enable the students to understand the major concepts, principal theories, research findings, and basic issues in the various subfields of linguistics such as Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax, Morphology, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, etc.
To develop the students' awareness of the language they speak, its status in society, and its under-researched areas.
To ensure that the students have a sense of social responsibility as native speakers to help preserve their languages by developing a research mindset and taking part in studying, documenting, and describing their languages.
To facilitate analytical and logical abilities and problem-solving skills in analysing and interpreting linguistic data.
Programme Outcomes
To understand the concepts of Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Synatx, and applied linguistics.
An aim to apply linguistic knowledge to any language irrespective of whether the student speaks that language or not.
Develop a sense of safeguarding a language by preserving it from language endangerment or extinction through documentation, archiving, and descriptive studies.
Encourage the students to go beyond and adopt forieign languages to become second language teachers.
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