LIN 212 - INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS II

College of Arts & Sciences

Credit(s): 3

This course is the second semester of a two- semester sequence introducing the study of Linguistics, the scientific study of human language as a system. This course focuses on the social aspects of linguistic study: Semantics, pragmatics, conversational interaction, language variation and register, dialects, linguistic aspects of sign languages, second language acquisition, and the acquisition of language by children.

Prereq: ENG/LIN 211.