KShs 100
Description
CONTENT
Introduction
General objective and specific objectives
SECTION ONE
1. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Lesson1: What is language?
Lesson 2: The Origin of Human language.
Lesson 3: Language and the brain.
Lesson 4: Language vis-à-vis other forms of communication.
Lesson 5: Linguistics
Lesson 6: The scientificness of linguistics.
Lesson 7: Descriptive versus Prescriptive Linguistics.
SECTION TWO
AIMS AND SCOPE OF LINGUISTICS – LINGUISTICS IN RELATION TO OTHER DISCIPLINES
Lesson 8: Why study language?
Lesson 9: Language and Psychology
Lesson 10: Language and History
Lesson 11: Language and Sociology
SECTION THREE
THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF LANGUAGE STUDY.
Lesson 12: Phonetics.
Lesson 13: Place and manner of articulation.
Lesson 14: Phonology
Lesson 15: Morphology.
Lesson 16: Syntax.
Lesson 17: The clause
Lesson 18: The sentence
Lesson 19: Semantics and Pragmatics.
Lesson 20: Discourse Analysis.
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