Linguistics, 6 credits

Main field of study

Course level

Advancement level

Course offered for

• Bachelor´s Programme in Cognitive Science

Entry requirements

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- account for basic concepts in linguistics, and by means of these
- carry out an elementary linguistic analysis with specific
application on Swedish spoken and written language
- account for the language and speech of humans as a cognitive
ability and a communicative system.

Course content

Course content focuses on:
- Training on how to apply linguistic analysis, such as syntactic,
semantic and pragmatic analysis
- Review of basic linguistic concepts
- Parts of speech, phrases and clauses
- Expression and content
- Meaning and importance
- To say and to mean
- Language and communicative action
- Language and cognition
- Perspectives on language
- Language and interaction

Teaching and working methods

The teaching takes the form of lectures and analytical exercises in
group seminars. The student is expected to study independently,
individually or in groups.

Examination

The course is examined through written tests, written assignments
and oral presentations.

Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.

Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.

Grades

Other information

Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus. 

The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.

Department